bumpy
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈbʌm.pi/
:
accidentado
- Sorry if the ride was a little bumpy.
- a bumpy road
- a bumpy ride
I love your red, bumpy, ridgy tummy.
- I love your red, bumpy, ridgy tummy.
- The train of history has been bumpy as it's rumbled through the Middle East.
- I now feel like I'm on at least this like pretty bumpy Rd.
- That actually really helps if you get that bumpy skin on your forearms.
- So the the bumpy stuff that looks like sea coral.
- You know, like life, it's a bumpy Rd.
- I mean, it's it's, it's a rough, bumpy ride.
- It contains salicylic acid for rough and dry, bumpy skin, ceramides, hyaluronic acid.
- Like it's it's not especially bumpy or unsettled or bad.
Examples
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Driving on that bumpy road made my car feel like it was shaking.
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The car swerves to an uneven stop on the bumpy shoulder of the road.
Fiction book (1995) -
And the flight here was a little bit bumpy, very bumpy.
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Now, you know as an agent that this is going to be a bumpy ride.
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Got some bumpy streets over here.
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It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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This is going to be a little bumpy.
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And the road is so bumpy that I'm having a hard time thinking of it as smooth.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a bumpy road, Becky.
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Otavalo indigenous communities have traveled a long way on the bumpy road to citizenship.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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Not smooth and often harsh in sound
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4.3
Moving in sudden, uneven ways that are not smooth
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2.3
Not smooth or level, with parts higher and lower
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2.2
Not smooth because it has small pieces in it
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4.1
Having a surface you can feel that is not smooth
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3.9
Water with many small waves that moves unevenly
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3.0
Something that moves in an unsteady way with sudden bumps
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3.9
Moving in sudden small jumps instead of smoothly
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7.4
Moving with sudden, uneven bumps that make you feel unsteady
Rough and uneven so you feel small jolts
Having small rounded lumps on the surface that you can feel
A surface that feels bumpy or not smooth to the touch
Having a rough surface that feels slightly scratchy
A surface that feels rough because it has small bumps or cuts
Causing a sudden rough movement or shock
A sudden, sharp jerk in the neck or body that you feel after a quick move
Antonyms
How Bumpy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bumpy comes from the familiar word bump and the ending -y. A bump is 'a small raised area or a sudden hit', and -y means 'full of', so bumpy means 'full of bumps' or 'not smooth'.