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Lumpish vs Dumpish - What's the difference?

lumpish | dumpish |

As adjectives the difference between lumpish and dumpish

is that lumpish is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted while dumpish is (obsolete) stupid, dull.

lumpish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.
  • Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces.
  • Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
  • :"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

    • dumpish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
  • Sad, melancholy.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice.

    • Derived terms

    * dumpishly * dumpishness