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Lumpish vs Lazy - What's the difference?

lumpish | lazy | Related terms |

Lumpish is a related term of lazy.


As an adjective lumpish

is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.

As a verb lazy is

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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

    • lazy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
  • Requiring little or no effort.
  • Relaxed or leisurely.
  • (label) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
  • (label) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.
  • (label) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
  • wicked; vicious
    • (Ben Jonson)

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.

    Synonyms

    * (unwilling to work) bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy * See also

    Derived terms

    * laze * laziness * lazybones * lazy evaluation * lazy eye * lazy Susan

    Verb

  • (label) To laze, act in a lazy manner
    • 1000 English basic words