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Webster 1828 Edition


Lumpish

LUMP'ISH

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Adj.
1.
Like a lump; heavy; gross; bulky.
2.
Dull; inactive.

Definition 2024


lumpish

lumpish

English

Adjective

lumpish (comparative more lumpish, superlative most lumpish)

  1. Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.
  2. Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces.
  3. 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