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Lumpish vs Lumpishness - What's the difference?

lumpish | lumpishness |

As an adjective lumpish

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

As a noun lumpishness is

the property of being lumpish.

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

    • lumpishness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being lumpish.