lumpen

a. 失业流浪的, 破落户的

发音

其它 /ˈlʌmpən/

词形变化

lumpens 复数 lumpens lumpened lumpening lumpens 三单 lumpening 现在分词 lumpened 过去式 lumpened 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of the lumpenproletariat.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy

    及物/不及物 罕用
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to social outcasts.

    A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]

  2. 2.

    Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.

  3. 3.

    Plebeian.

  4. 1.

    Lump-like.

    [About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

lumpish unthinking

近义相关 1

stupid

词源

Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.

来源：wiktionary