lumpish
/ˈlʌmpɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
adj
Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "The Sprite […] lifting vp his lompiſh head, vvth blame / Halfe angrie asked him, for vvhat he came."
- "It ſeems to me that mere unmixed uglineſs does not ariſe from ſharp angles, or from any ſudden variation, but rather from that want of form, that unſhapen lumpiſh appearance, vvhich, perhaps, no one vvord exactly expreſſes; a quality that never can be miſtaken for beauty, never can adorn it, and vvhich is equally unconnected vvith the ſublime and the pictureſque."
- "Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly."
- "The lumpish, irregular totems crafted by this American sculptor [Rachel Harrison] were outfitted here with that most contemporary and most loathsome of accessories: the selfie stick."
- "[H]e emerged from some struggling trees, and looked out upon a wild moorish country, composed of a succession of swelling lumpish hills, […]"
- "Continental soldiers looked lumpish beside our lean-bred fellows: but against my supple Nejdis the British in their turn looked lumpish."
Etymology
Partly: * from Late Middle English lumprissh, lumpryssh (“of a somewhat lumpy consistency”), from lumpe (“mass of material; excrescence, swelling; mass of people, crowd; useless person”) or lumpred (“piled up or twisted into lumps”) (both possibly related to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide; to go; to hang limply”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang limply”)) + -ish (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of the nature of; similar to; somewhat’); and * from lump (noun, verb) + -ish. Compare English lumber.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlʌmpɪʃ/
- British English: /ˈlʌmpɪʃ/