"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
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Lumpish — Lump ish, a. Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless. Lumpish, heavy, melancholy. Shak. {Lump ish*ly}, adv. {Lump ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lumpish — index lifeless (dull), obtuse, opaque, ponderous, stagnant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
lumpish — ► ADJECTIVE 1) roughly or clumsily formed. 2) stupid and lethargic. DERIVATIVES lumpishly adverb lumpishness noun … English terms dictionary
lumpish — [lum′pish] adj. 1. like a lump 2. heavy, clumsy, dull, stupid, etc. lumpishly adv. lumpishness n … English World dictionary
lumpish — /ˈlʌmpɪʃ/ (say lumpish) adjective 1. like a lump. 2. clumsy or stupid: she called him a lumpish boor. –lumpishly, adverb –lumpishness, noun …
lumpish — adjective Date: 1528 1. dull, sluggish 2. obsolete low in spirits 3. heavy, awkward 4. lumpy 1a 5. tediously slow or dull ; boring; also lumpy 3 • lumpishly … New Collegiate Dictionary
lumpish — lumpishly, adv. lumpishness, n. /lum pish/, adj. 1. resembling a lump. 2. having a heavy appearance; moving clumsily. 3. having a sluggish mind; unresponsive; dull; stupid. [1400 50; late ME lumpisch. See LUMP1, ISH1] * * * … Universalium
lumpish — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, all thumbs, apathetic, asinine, awkward, beef brained, beef witted, benumbed, blase, blockish, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bored, bovine, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, caked,… … Moby Thesaurus
lumpish — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. heavy, clumsy, bungling; see awkward 1 , stupid 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Lacking dexterity and grace in physical movement: awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, inept, maladroit, ungainly, ungraceful.… … English dictionary for students
lumpish — lump|ish [ˈlʌmpıʃ] adj heavy and awkward … Dictionary of contemporary English
