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Lumpy vs Clumpy - What's the difference?

lumpy | clumpy |

As adjectives the difference between lumpy and clumpy

is that lumpy is full of lumps, not smooth while clumpy is forming or tending to form clumps.

lumpy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Full of lumps, not smooth.
    • I don't know which was worse, the lumpy''' soup or the '''lumpy bed.

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    clumpy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • forming or tending to form clumps
  • resembling a clump
  • clompy; with heavy footfalls
  • * 1920 , Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie
    • 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.