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.