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Lumpish vs Hulking - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between lumpish and hulking

is that lumpish is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted while hulking is large and bulky.

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

    • hulking

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Large and bulky.
  • (man) Tall and heavily built.
  • Unwieldy.

    • Quotations

    * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 212 *: A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.

    Related terms

    * hulk