dumpish
English
Etymology
From dump + -ish.
Adjective
dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)
- (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
- Sad, melancholy.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice […].
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Derived terms
- dumpishly
- dumpishness