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Lumpish vs Voluminous - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between lumpish and voluminous

is that lumpish is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted while voluminous is of or pertaining to volume or volumes.

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

    • voluminous

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
  • Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
  • Of great volume, or bulk; large.
  • Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.