adj
lumpish
Lumpish (adj) means Shaped roughly like a lump, with no clear or neat form.
adj
1
Shaped roughly like a lump, with no clear or neat form.
2
Clumsy and awkward in the way someone looks or moves.
"Direction of the principal characters is effective, but the crowd scenes tend to the lumpish, with a paradoxically static feel, despite the overt busyness of it all."
— Deon Irish, ‘La Traviata’ in need of finer tuning (2011)
"But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances."
— , New Plays in Manhattan (1951)
3
Slow and dull in thought or action, and lacking energy.
"He felt horribly ashamed. He would have liked to throw himself on his knees beside her, put his arms round her, and ask her pardon. But he could do nothing of the kind; the scene had left him lumpish and awkward."
— George Orwell pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair (1936)
4
Describes a sound that is dull and heavy.
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Etymology
This word has two partial sources. One is Late Middle English lumprissh or lumpryssh (“of a somewhat lumpy consistency”), from lumpe (“mass of material; excrescence, swelling; mass of people, crowd; useless person”) or lumpred (“piled up or twisted into lumps”) — both possibly related to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide; to go; to hang limply”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang limply”) — with the suffix -ish, meaning ‘of the nature of; similar to; somewhat’. The other is lump (noun and verb) plus -ish. Compare English lumber.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the meaning of lumpish?
"lumpish" (adj) means shaped roughly like a lump, with no clear or neat form.
What is another word for lumpish?
Other words for "lumpish" include lumpen, unthinking.
What is the opposite of lumpish?
Opposites of "lumpish" include clever, brainy, bright, intelligent, astute.
What are the different meanings of lumpish?
"lumpish" has 3 main meanings: 1. Shaped roughly like a lump, with no clear or neat form; 2. Clumsy and awkward in the way someone looks or moves; 3. Slow and dull in thought or action, and lacking energy.
