clods
Lumps of soil
Clods are lumps of earth or clay, the kind that break up when you work soil: He broke up the clods with a hoe.
By extension, a clod is a dull, stupid, or insensitive person—someone as dense as a lump of dirt: Don't be such a clod.
The insult suggests clumsiness and lack of refinement.
Irregular solid masses
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- dirtLoose dry earth
- chunksThick, solid pieces
- loamFertile soil mixture
clay · topsoil · furrows · plowing · tillage · sowing · cultivation · humus
Thick, solid pieces
- massesBulk or populace
- globsRounded shapeless masses
- clumpsMasses stuck together
- wadsCompressed lumps or bundles
hunks · gobs · thick · dense · heavy · compact · solid · irregular
Loose dry earth
- mudWet soil mixture
- projectilesObjects forcefully launched
- peltingStriking repeatedly with projectiles
- hurlingPowerful propulsion by arm
tossing · lobbing · missiles · splattering · bombardment · schoolyard · mischief
lumps
Irregular solid masses
loam · clay · topsoil · furrows · plowing · tillage · sowing · cultivation · humus · compost
chunks
Thick, solid pieces
wads · hunks · gobs · thick · dense · heavy · compact · solid · irregular · rough
dirt
Loose dry earth
- mudWet soil mixture
- projectilesObjects forcefully launched
- peltingStriking repeatedly with projectiles
hurling · tossing · lobbing · missiles · splattering · bombardment · schoolyard · mischief
blockheads
Stupid or obstinate people
boors · dolts · rubes · churls · rustics · simpletons · dunces · buffoons · hayseeds · lummoxes
clodsbrains
Mental capacity, informally
geniuses · intellectuals · masterminds · savants · sophisticates
clodssophisticates
Worldly, cultured individuals
gentlemen · ladies · aristocrats · cosmopolitans · smooth operators
- storm cloudsRain-bearing atmospheric formations
- head in the cloudsAbsorbed in fantasy
- on cloud nineExtremely elated state
- rain cloudPrecipitation-bearing atmospheric formation
- partly cloudySky with scattered coverage
- cloud nineState of extreme elation
cloud, cloudy, clouds, clod, unclouded, cloudiness, clodhopper, cloddish, overcloud