lumpish
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- adjective
- /ˈlʌmpɪʃ/
- Offensive
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lerdo
- Beside him stands the short, lumpish, wide-eyed figure of Busta, that faithful son of Ham who assists the Shade and drives him about Central City in his yellow cab.
- lumpish face
- lumpish man
Examples
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The lumpish son of the family she lived with once held her down and tried to kiss her, but she bit his tongue.
Fiction book (2001) -
"Scott's right hand has lumpish knuckles and an age spot near the wrist."
Fiction book (1998) -
Of the lumpish woman in plate glass.
Fiction book (1992) -
He returned the glasses and asked a squat, lumpish man across from them, "Back or front?"
Fiction book (1998) -
His father, lumpish, with huge heaping shoulders—was this really his father?
Fiction book (2001) -
The only thing he had to offer, really, was himself, Donald Lawrence Zimmerman—a lumpish man of middle age who had earned his livelihood on the edge of the civil courts.
Fiction book (1997) -
Then she placed the teapot on a wooden tray alongside four chipped ceramic mugs, one tarnished teaspoon, and a bowl of brown, lumpish sugar.
Fiction book (1995) -
After staying up all night, he felt quite lumpish and struggled to concentrate in class.
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Her lumpish demeanor made it hard for her friends to get excited about their plans.
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He answered the questions with a lumpish expression, showing little enthusiasm for the discussion.
Synonyms
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Slow to notice things and to understand what they mean
Slow and crude in thinking and behavior
A little slow to understand things
Antonyms
How Alert
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- Offensive
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- Offensive
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- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lumpish comes from lump, a common word for a heavy soft piece, and the ending -ish which means 'like' or 'somewhat'. So to be lumpish is to be 'like a lump' — slow, heavy, and dull, which explains its use for someone slow in thinking.