Lumpish

Quick meaning: Lumpish is an adjective meaning Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.

Meaning

Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.

More Meanings

1. Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
2. Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
3. Of sound: dull, heavy.
4. Full of lumps; lumpy.
5. Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
6. Miserable, sad.

Example Sentences

Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly.

The Sprite […] lifting vp his lompiſh head, vvth blame / Halfe angrie asked him, for vvhat he came.

Continental soldiers looked lumpish beside our lean-bred fellows: but against my supple Nejdis the British in their turn looked lumpish.

[H]e emerged from some struggling trees, and looked out upon a wild moorish country, composed of a succession of swelling lumpish hills, […]

Synonyms for lumpish

Depending on context, synonyms include lumpen, loggish, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained.

Antonyms for lumpish

Common opposites include astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, educated.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stupid, lumpen, unthinking, lompish, lumpy, lumplike.

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