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lumpen

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lum·pen  (lmpn, lm-)
adj.
1. Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields.
2. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
3. Vulgar or common; plebeian: "Popular novelists and their mass readership remain a despised lumpen minority" Leslie Fiedler.
n.
1. (used with a pl. verb) The lumpenproletariat.
2. (used with a sing. verb) A member of the lumpenproletariat.
[From German Lumpenproletariat, the lowest section of the proletariat; see lumpenproletariat.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.lumpenlumpen - mentally sluggish
lumpish, unthinking
stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
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