Word Meanings - CLUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance. 2. A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne. 3. The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLUMP)

• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• blunder
• clump
• disconcert
• spoil
• jumble
• mess
• bungle
• mar
• blacksmith
• Group
• Cluster
• bunch
• knot
• assemblage
• collocation
• class
• collection
• order
• assembly

Related words: (words related to CLUMP)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• JUMBLE
  1. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words. 2. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• COLLOCATION
  The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• PATCH
  1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat. 2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house. 3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch
• BUNGLE
  A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth.
• BOTCHERLY
  Bungling; awkward.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.