slumpy
/ˈslʌmpi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of an economic slump.
Example Sentences
- "Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process."
- "Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier."
- "Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence."
- "Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman."
- "So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]"
- "[…] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]"
Etymology
From slump + -y.