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dumpish

dumpish adjective: stupid, dull.

Adjective

dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)

  1. (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
  2. Melancholy, sad.
    • But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1

Forms of dumpish

comparativemore dumpish
superlativemost dumpish

Origin of dumpish

From dump + -ish.

Words formed from dumpish

Questions about dumpish

What does dumpish mean?
Dumpish means stupid, dull.
What part of speech is dumpish?
Dumpish is an adjective.

Words near dumpish in the dictionary

  1. dumping on
  2. dumping one's load
  3. dumping out
  4. dumping syndrome
  5. dumpings
  6. dumpish
  7. dumpishly
  8. dumpishness
  9. dumple
  10. dumpled
  11. dumples

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