lumpen

Thân thiện

A student with a lumpen expression stares blankly at the textbook.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Mentally sluggish; dull; stupid: Describes a person who is slow in thought or understanding, lacking intelligence or alertness.
   • Of or relating to dispossessed and uprooted individuals who form a class lacking social or economic status: Used in a sociological context to describe a group of people who are alienated from the social and economic structure.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The professor grew frustrated with the lumpen responses from the unprepared students.
  • He dismissed the proposal with a lumpen lack of imagination.
  • The novel explores the lives of the lumpen proletariat in the industrial city.

Advanced Usage

• "Lumpenproletariat": A term from Marxist theory referring to the lowest stratum of the proletariat, including the unemployed, vagrants, and criminals, seen as lacking class consciousness.
  • The revolutionary vanguard did not trust the lumpenproletariat to support the cause.

Variants and Related Words

• Lumpenly (adverb): In a lumpen manner.
  • He stared lumpenly at the television for hours.
• Lumpenness (noun): The quality or state of being lumpen.

Synonyms

• Obtuse: Slow to understand; insensitive.
• Stupid: Lacking intelligence or common sense.
• Dull: Lacking sharpness of intellect; not bright.

Antonyms

• Astute: Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations; shrewd.
• Intelligent: Having or showing intelligence.
• Perceptive: Having or showing sensitive insight.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. mentally sluggish

Từ đồng nghĩa

• lumpish
• unthinking