frumpy
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7.3
- adjective
- /ˈfrʌm.pi/
- Informal
:
anticuado
- She decided to donate her frumpy clothes to charity and buy a more stylish wardrobe.
- frumpy-looking
- frumpy dress
- frumpy woman
For me, this seems a little frumpy, like a little matronly, if you will.
- For me, this seems a little frumpy, like a little matronly, if you will.
- No, but maybe wearing a little sexy workout outfit instead of some frumpy sweats.
- It's just like all woolly and warm and it really keeps its heating but without it being like too frumpy.
- They sag they my ass looks like frumpy by the end of the night.
- Like if I'm smart, do I have to be like frumpy?
Examples
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After her makeover, she felt confident and no longer looked frumpy in her new outfits.
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Someone frumpy but interesting, or someone gorgeous but dull?
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We need to get you out of these frumpy clothes and into something -that shows off the real estate a little bit.
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"Frumpy, she was, in a way that inspired confidence.
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For me, this seems a little frumpy, like a little matronly, if you will.
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My mother was kind of... Middle-aged and frumpy.
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Imagine if she were an equally frumpy 22-year-old woman.
Blog text (28) -
The gal is skinny, plain, frumpy, very shy, lonely, and bored.
Blog text (4) -
A lone checkout lady behind the counter, big and frumpy, looks up from counting money.
Fiction book (1996) -
Finally, the door was opened by a frumpy-looking woman with curlers in her hair, cold cream on her face, and a drooping figure.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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3.8
Messy and untidy in clothes or appearance
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9.9
Old-fashioned and not open to new ideas
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7.1
Plain and old-fashioned in a way that looks unattractive
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9.9
Old-fashioned and slow to accept new ideas
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9.9
Being dirty and messy in appearance
Looking plain and out of fashion in a dull way
Having old torn clothes and looking untidy
Antonyms
How Dowdy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Frumpy comes from an older English word frump, which meant a dull or old-fashioned person, and the ending -y turns that into 'like a frump'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of words like dumpy or grumpy, which also use -y to describe a look or mood, so frumpy means 'old-fashioned and not stylish'.