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slumpier

slumpier is the comparative form of slumpy.

Meaning of slumpy

Adjective

slumpy (comparative slumpier, superlative slumpiest)

  1. Characteristic of an economic slump.
    • Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times
  2. (informal) Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
    • Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, page 134
  3. (UK, US, dialectal) Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
    • So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 219
    Synonyms:
    poachy

Questions about slumpier

What is slumpier the comparative form of?
Slumpier is the comparative form of slumpy.

Words near slumpier in the dictionary

  1. slumped down
  2. slumper
  3. slumpers
  4. slumpflation
  5. slumpflationary
  6. slumpier
  7. slumpiest
  8. slumping
  9. slumping down
  10. slumpings
  11. slumplike

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