lumpily
- adverb
- /ˈlʌmpɪli/
:
torpemente
- The dog moved lumpily through the mud, its paws getting stuck in the thick sludge.
Examples
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She carried the heavy boxes lumpily, occasionally stumbling as she made her way to the truck.
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A sack dangled from the rusted handlebars, and one second he was lumpily moving along, and the next second he had tumbled over against the nylon rope pulled flat across the front tire, the uncle no more than an animal snagged in a net.
Fiction book (2001) -
The child walked lumpily across the uneven ground, struggling to maintain his balance.
Synonyms
To move in a slow, heavy, and awkward way
In a slow, awkward way because something is heavy or hard to move
In a large awkward way that is hard to move
In a not smooth way that makes movement uneven
In a sudden, heavy way that makes a soft sound when landing
In a way that is like jelly and moves slowly and wobbles
Antonyms
How Clumsy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lumpily comes from the simple word lump ('a small piece or bump') plus the ending -ly ('in a way'), so it makes a picture of someone moving as if they had lumps on them — heavy and clumsy. That's why lumpily means 'in a clumsy or awkward way'.