lumpen

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of the lumpenproletariat.
    — In Sydorenko's memorable words: "Our ideals as 'lumpens' are: to find a cozy place, to eat well, to multiply and to die peacefully. A 'lumpen' does not have a nationality, nor does he have a fatherland. Nor conscience. He remains beyond politics and morality."
动词 v.
  1. To make or become like lumps; make or become lumpy ambitransitive,rare
    — They had chicken soup with the matzo meal balls a little lumpened by hurry, challah, roast chicken, kasha, honey-cake.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lump-like. not-comparable
    — [About prominent critics lambasting his film 2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
  2. Of or relating to social outcasts.
    — A little lumpen novelita. [Story of orphaned teenagers turning to crime.]
  3. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
  4. Plebeian.

词形变化

lumpens plural lumpens present,singular,third-person lumpening participle,present lumpened participle,past lumpened past

词汇关系

衍生词
lumpenly
相关词
lumpenism

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English lump
English -en
English lumpen
From lump + -en (adjectival suffix).
词源 2
Shortened from German Lumpenproletariat, from Lump (“a contemptible person”) + Proletariat.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English lump
English -en
English lumpen
From lump + -en (verbal suffix).
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