lompish

Adjective

lumpish (comparative more lumpish, superlative most lumpish)

1. Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.
   • The Sprite […] lifting vp his lompiſh head, vvth blame / Halfe angrie asked him, for vvhat he came.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 43, page 15

   Synonyms:

   lumpen

2. (figuratively) Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
   • [H]e emerged from some struggling trees, and looked out upon a wild moorish country, composed of a succession of swelling lumpish hills, […]1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John...
3. (figuratively) Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
   • So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 61, page 461

   Synonyms:

   loggish, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained

   Antonyms:

   astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, educated, genius, gifted, hivey, ingenious

4. (figuratively) Of sound: dull, heavy.
   • The uplifted Hanger dropped from his Hand, and he fell proſtrate on the Floor vvith a lumpiſh Noiſe, and his Halfpence rattled in his Pocket; the red Liquor vvhich his Veins contained, and the vvhite Liquor vvhich the Pot contained, ran in one Stream dovvn his Face and his Clothes.1742, Henry Fielding, “Containing as Surprizing and Bloody Adventures as can be Found in This, or perhaps any Other Authentic History”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His...
5. (obsolete) Full of lumps; lumpy.
6. (obsolete) Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
   • [I]t is better to have a ſhaft [of an arrow] a litle to ſhort than over longe, ſomevvhat to light, than over lumpiſhe, a litle to ſmal, than a greate deale to big, […]1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC

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