Synonyms for bump

Most common

protuberance · lump · swelling · hump

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Antonyms

indentation

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   A light blow or jolting collision.

   His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.

2. v. 1

   To knock against or run into with a jolt.

   Their car got bumped while they were turning at the junction.

3. v. 2

   To move up or down by a step; displace.

   I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read.

4. v. 3

   To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Related words

Word family

bump-out bump-start bumpy bumper

Phrases

bump off bump into goose bump speed bump bump nasties bump car razor bump bump uglies

Forms

Plural

bumps → protuberances, lumps, swellings, humps…

Past participle

bumped
e.g. bumped → chanced, happened, encountered, breaked…

Example sentences

• lump I bumped my head against the door and got a lump.
• swelling You may have swelling, but don't worry about it.
• hump The camel sees not its own hump but that of its fellow.
• dab Kansas is smack dab in the middle of the US.
• nudge We have to nudge him to do the right thing.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

hit¹, dab¹, jot¹, jut¹

4 letters

find¹, gift¹, blow¹, slap¹, lump¹, hump¹, goff¹, jolt¹

5 letters

power², break¹, bunch¹, knock¹, bulge¹, nudge¹, thump¹

6 letters

chance¹, happen², strike¹, pounce¹, demote², thwack, jounce

8 letters

swelling², dislodge², relegate³, asperity⁴

9 letters

encounter³, endowment³, extrusion³, gibbosity

10 letters

projection³, prominence³, protrusion

11 letters

excrescence, gibbousness

12 letters

protuberance⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (power² = 2 syllables).

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