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clumpier

clumpier is the comparative form of clumpy.

Meaning of clumpy

Adjective

clumpy (comparative clumpier, superlative clumpiest)

  1. Forming or tending to form clumps.
    • Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
  2. Resembling a clump.
  3. Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
    • Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie

Questions about clumpier

What is clumpier the comparative form of?
Clumpier is the comparative form of clumpy.

Words near clumpier in the dictionary

  1. clumpers
  2. clumpet
  3. clumpets
  4. clumpful
  5. clumpfuls
  6. clumpier
  7. clumpiest
  8. clumpified
  9. clumpifies
  10. clumpify
  11. clumpifying

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