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Lumpish vs Leaden - What's the difference?

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Lumpish is a related term of leaden.


As adjectives the difference between lumpish and leaden

is that lumpish is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted while leaden is (dated) made of lead.

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

    • leaden

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Made of lead.
  • Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
  • * Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
    • "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
  • Dull; darkened with overcast.
    • the sky was leaden and thick
  • * 1999: Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
    • "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."

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