Hump (Noun)
Meaning
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns".
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The rock face had a distinctive hump where the ledge had been worn away by centuries of erosion.
- Her wallet in the back pocket created an annoying hump in her pants.
- The elderly woman developed a hump on her upper back from years of osteoporosis.
- A prominent hump of snow lay at the summit, its edge razor-sharp against the wind.
- In many depictions, Quasimodo had a massive hump on his back that limited his mobility.
Synonyms
- Protrusion
- Protuberance
- Excrescence
- Prominence
- Gibbosity
- Gibbousness
- Jut
- Extrusion
- Swelling
- Bulge
- Bump