clumpy
/ˈklʌmpi
/adjective (clumpier, clumpiest)
1 (also clompy) (clompier, clompiest) British (Of shoes or boots) heavy and inelegant: opaque tights and clumpy shoes...
- The girls share an awkward, boxy physical presence, highlighted by their penchant for vintage clothes and clompy boots.
- Even in the cabaret shows you will see the girls in huge clumpy shoes and boots.
- She was a gauche tomboy from the projects, in clumpy boots and combats.
2Forming or showing a tendency to form clumps: ultraviolet radiation penetrates the clumpy clouds...
- Why, given its exceedingly smooth beginnings, is the universe so clumpy, on all scales from galaxies to galactic superclusters?
- Sure enough, there was a huge shell of clumpy, hole-riddled gas that looked like a nearly dissipated planetary nebula.
- The early Universe was smooth and homogenous, quite a contrast from the clumpy array of galaxies and clusters of galaxies observed today.
Rhymes
- colour harmony
- colour hearer
- colour hearing
- colourific
- colourimetrical
- colourimetrically
- colourimetrist
- colour index
- colouring
- colouring book
- colouring in
- colouring matter
- colouring wheel
- colourism
- colourist
- colouristic
- colouristically
- colourize
- colour-keyed
- colourless
- colourlessly
- colourlessness
- colour light signal
- colour light signalling
- colour line