ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Lumpishness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Lumpishness is a noun meaning The property of being lumpish.

Meaning

The property of being lumpish.

Example Sentences

If marked beauty be absent from the French face, how much more is marked dulness, marked brutality, the lumpishness of the clumsily made and the unfinished! As a mere piece of workmanship, of finish, the French provincial face—the peasant’s face, even—often has the same kind of interest as a work of art.
1753, William Duncan, The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English, Glasgow University Press, 1815, Volume II, Of the Civil War, Book I, LII, p. 146, Our men […] were incommoded too by the weight and lumpishness of their vessels, which being built in haste, of unseasoned timber, were not so ready at tacking about.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lumpiness, clunkiness, plumpishness, limpness, lumberingness, slugginess.

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