Friday, January 29, 2010

LUMPEN

lumpen: one cut off from his/her normal socioeconomic class

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Detailed Definition:

adjective
- relating to displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified (e.g. lumpen intellectuals unable to find jobs in their fields)
- plebeian
- stupid
- unthinking

noun
- a member of the uneducated lowest class of society