frumpy
UK/ˈfɹʌm.pɪ//ˈfɹʌm.pi/
frumpy adjective: dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
Adjective
frumpy (comparative frumpier, superlative frumpiest)
- Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
- She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.
- Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”2015 July 23, Siobhan Roberts, “John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician”, in The Guardian
- Bad-tempered.
frumpy meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Vietnamese
frumpy in Urdu
- بدمزاج
frumpy in Malayalam
- unfashionable, dowdy, frumpish
- വികൃതവസ്ത്രധാരിണിയായ, അനാകർഷകമായി വസ്ത്രം ധരിച്ച, പഴഞ്ചത്തിയായ, കോലം കെട്ടുനടക്കുന്ന, അലക്ഷ്യമായി വസ്ത്രംധരിച്ചു നടക്കുന്ന, മോശമായ വസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ ധരിക്കുന്ന
frumpy in Vietnamese
- dowdy, unfashionable
- lôi thôi, lếch thếch
Forms of frumpy
| comparative | frumpier |
|---|---|
| superlative | frumpiest |
Origin of frumpy
Either from frump or from Middle English frumple + -y.
Words formed from frumpy
Questions about frumpy
- What does frumpy mean?
- Frumpy means dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
- What is frumpy in Urdu?
- Frumpy in Urdu is بدمزاج. See Frumpy meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is frumpy?
- Frumpy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce frumpy?
- Frumpy is pronounced /ˈfɹʌm.pɪ/ (UK).
Words near frumpy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: frumpy (page history and authors); frumpy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frumpy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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