clump

Meaning

Noun

1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
2. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
3. A dull thud.
4. The compressed clay of coal strata.
5. A small group of trees or plants.
6. A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.

Verb

1. To form clusters or lumps.
2. To gather in dense groups.
3. To walk with heavy footfalls.
4. To strike; to beat.

Synonyms

cluster

bunch

lump

tuft

bundle

group

flock

mass

chunk

knot

🪢

ball

thicket

crowd

clunk

grove

clod

clomp

clot

glob

thump

clop

thud

agglutinate

collection

concrete

bump

constellate

plunk

bunch up

bush

ball up

cake

🍰

gobbet

swarm

heap

thumping

herd

tussock

wad

batch

clustering

parcel

school

🏫

set

sheaf

smack

sphere

sprout

stamp

stand

straggle

strike

swad

throng

thunk

tramp

tumor

tumour

volume

wallop

whack

bunch together

clod of dirt

plex

lead bar

bonding strip

tree group

aggregate

amass

army

assemblage

bash

battery

🔋

bevy

biff

billow

blob

bop

brush

bulk

bullet

caboodle

clog

clout

conglomeration

congregate

coppice

copse

cuff

excrescence

gather

gob

growth

huddle

hump

hunch

lam

lout

neoplasm

nest

nub

patch

piece

pile

pinch

planting

punch

👊

rumple

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klʌmp/

Etymology

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).
Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.