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clumpish

clumpish adjective: tending to form clumps.

Adjective

clumpish (comparative more clumpish, superlative most clumpish)

  1. Tending to form clumps.
  2. Heavy and awkward; clumpy.
    • The girl was wearing her school coat, and childish low-heeled clumpish black school shoes; and consequently looked younger than Blair had anticipated.1948, Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair, page 37

Forms of clumpish

comparativemore clumpish
superlativemost clumpish

Origin of clumpish

From clump + -ish.

Questions about clumpish

What does clumpish mean?
Clumpish means tending to form clumps.
What part of speech is clumpish?
Clumpish is an adjective.

Words near clumpish in the dictionary

  1. clumpiness
  2. clumpinesses
  3. clumping
  4. clumping up
  5. clumpings
  6. clumpish
  7. clumplike
  8. clumproot
  9. clumps
  10. clumps up
  11. clumpy

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