Lumpen
Lumpen adjective - Belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank.
Usage example: a kind of music that has traditionally appealed to the lumpen segment of the musical audience
Mean and lumpen are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean" instead an adjective "Lumpen".
Nearby Word: lump
Mean
Mean adjective - Belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank.
Usage example: Alexander Hamilton seems to have had feelings of inferiority because of his mean origins
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Lumpen & Mean. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lumpen/mean>.
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