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
   • Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.2014, Brian Oliver, quoting Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, 1980, quoted in The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 111
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
   • […] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]1853, George Johnston, The Botany of the Eastern Borders, I., page 250

   Synonyms:

   poachy