Word.ws English Dictionary

lunkiest

lunkiest is the superlative form of lunky.

Meaning of lunky

Adjective

lunky (comparative lunkier, superlative lunkiest)

  1. Stupid; slow-witted; unintelligent.
    • As her mother tucks her brother in, Judy settles before the television and flicks from The Wonder Years to Night Court to a French movie, starring that lunky Depardieu who is in all of them, this time about a man who comes into a village and usurps another man’s identity, including his wife.1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, page 98

Questions about lunkiest

What is lunkiest the superlative form of?
Lunkiest is the superlative form of lunky.

Words near lunkiest in the dictionary

  1. lunkers
  2. lunkhead
  3. lunkheaded
  4. lunkheads
  5. lunkier
  6. lunkiest
  7. lunkish
  8. lunks
  9. lunky
  10. Lunn
  11. lunner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lunkiest (page history and authors); lunky (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lunkiest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lunkiest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.