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Webster 1828 Edition
Lumpish
LUMP'ISH
,Adj.
1.
Like a lump; heavy; gross; bulky.2.
Dull; inactive.Definition 2024
lumpish
lumpish
English
Adjective
lumpish (comparative more lumpish, superlative most lumpish)
- Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.
- Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces.
- Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
- "Continental soldiers looked lumpish beside our lean-bred fellows: but against my supple Nejdis the British in their turn looked lumpish." T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter XCIX.
- "Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly." Henry David Thoreau Walden (section 17) Spring