bumpier; bumpiest
1
: having or covered with bumps
2
a
: marked by bumps or jolts
b
: marked by or full of difficulties
Examples of bumpy in a Sentence
The road is very bumpy.
the bumpy skin of a cucumber
The flight was very bumpy.
The road was rough so we had a bumpy ride.
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Their relationship was a bumpy one, yet oddly enough, neither had anything to do with the other’s ousting.
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Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Apr. 2025
There have been some bumpy days in their friendship, notably between 2007 and 2010 when Ovechkin took a number of runs at Malkin during games, which illustrated a strain in their friendship for a time.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Snow White had an unusually bumpy road leading up to its release in theaters worldwide on Friday, largely stemming from controversies surrounding the production over the past three-plus years.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Still, the automaker has faced a bumpy road in the world of autonomous driving.
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Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Apr. 2025
There have been some bumpy days in their friendship, notably between 2007 and 2010 when Ovechkin took a number of runs at Malkin during games, which illustrated a strain in their friendship for a time.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Snow White had an unusually bumpy road leading up to its release in theaters worldwide on Friday, largely stemming from controversies surrounding the production over the past three-plus years.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Still, the automaker has faced a bumpy road in the world of autonomous driving.
—Ece Yildirim, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Bumpy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumpy. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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