adj. Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields. adj. Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.adj. Vulgar or common; plebeian: "Popular novelists and their mass readership remain a despised lumpen minority” ( Leslie Fiedler). n. The lumpenproletariat.n. A member of the lumpenproletariat.