lumpy — Diccionario de inglés

Adjetivo

1. Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.

   Ejemplos

   I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.

   Más ejemplos (4)

   The film makes fun of the lumpiest and palest set of tourists ever to carry plastic shoulder bags. It makes fun of an upwardly mobile hotel manager, married to a lecherous blonde.

   The universe appears to be slightly lumpier, with bigger and more hot and cold spots in the northern half of the sky as seen from Earth than toward the south, for example. And there is a large, unexplained cool spot in the northern hemisphere.

   With the bathers, especially, bodies harden into things. Torsos like clay. Buttocks like pears. More classically proportioned figures could be paired, on the same page, with squatter, lumpier piles of flesh.

   The NIC warns that rail investment is being spread too thinly across too many projects, and calls for a proper long-term pipeline of projects, instead of the present stop-start policies dictated by the lumpy flow of money from HM Treasury.

2. Of a water surface: covered in many small waves as a result of wind; choppy.

Adjetivo

1. like or containing small sticky lumps

   Sinónimos

   chunky

   Ejemplos

   the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough

2. having lumps; not smooth and even in texture

   Ejemplos

   lumpy gravy