Lumpy vs Lumpish - What's the difference?
lumpy | lumpish |
Full of lumps, not smooth.
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
As adjectives the difference between lumpy and lumpish
is that lumpy is full of lumps, not smooth while lumpish is like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.lumpy
English
Adjective
(er)- I don't know which was worse, the lumpy''' soup or the '''lumpy bed.