lumpish
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- mentally sluggish
Adj
- Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.
- Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
- Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
- Of sound: dull, heavy.
- Full of lumps; lumpy.
- Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
- Miserable, sad.
Origin / Etymology
Partly:
* from Late Middle English lumprissh, lumpryssh (“of a somewhat lumpy consistency”), from lumpe (“mass of material; excrescence, swelling; mass of people, crowd; useless person”) or lumpred (“piled up or twisted into lumps”) (both possibly related to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide; to go; to hang limply”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang limply”)) + -ish (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of the nature of; similar to; somewhat’); and
* from lump (noun, verb) + -ish.
Compare English lumber.
Synonyms
addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blitheless, blockheaded, blue, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, bummed out, cerebrally challenged, chapfallen, cheerless, childish, chopfallen, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, crestfallen, cretinous, cut up, damp, dejected, dense, dented, depressed, despondent, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, doltish, dopey, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, elegiac, elegious, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, forlorn, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, inconsolable, infelicitous, insipid, intellectually challenged, jawfallen, joyless, knuckleheaded, lachrymose, lamebrained, lamentful, loggish, low, low-spirited, lowbrow, lugubrious, lumpen, lumpish, lunkheaded, melancholic, melancholy, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, miserable, monosynaptic, moody, mopey, moronic, morose, mournful, muttonheaded, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, passionate, peabrained, plaintive, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, querulous, retarded, rockheaded, sad, saddened, saturnine, sharp as a bowling ball, shattered, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, stolid, stupid, sullen, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, unapprehensive, uncheerful, uncheery, unclever, unconsolable, unhappy, unintelligent, unlively, unsmart, unthinking, vacant, vacuous, wistful, witless, woe, woebegone, woeful, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, wretched
Antonyms
brainless, dejected, depressed, discontented, dissatisfied, dumb, foolish, gloomy, idiotic, imbecile, insensible, lowbrow, mindless, miserable, sad, stupid, unhappy, unintelligent, witless
Scrabble Score: 14
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