What does lumpish mean?
Definitions for lumpish
ˈlʌm pɪʃlump·ish
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Princeton's WordNet
lumpish, lumpen, unthinkingadjective
mentally sluggish
Wiktionary
lumpishadjective
Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted.
lumpishadjective
Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces.
lumpishadjective
Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Lumpishadjective
Heavy; gross; dull; unactive; bulky.
Etymology: from lump.
Out of the earth was formed the flesh of man, and therefore heavy and lumpish. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.
Sylvia is lumpish, heavy, melancholy. William Shakespeare.
Love is all spirit: fairies sooner may
Be taken tardy, when they night tricks play,
Than we; we are too dull and lumpish. John Suckling.Little terrestrial particles swimming in it after the grossest were sunk down, which, by their heaviness and lumpish figure, made their way more speedily. Burnet.
How dull and how insensible a beast
Is man, who yet wou’d lord it o’er the rest?
Philosophers and poets vainly strove
In every age the lumpish mass to move. Dryden.
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lumpish
Lumpish refers to someone or something that is ungraceful, sluggish, lethargic, dull, or slow to understand. It can be used to describe both physical and mental attributes.
Webster Dictionary
Lumpishadjective
like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lumpish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lumpish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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