dumpish

English

Etymology

From dump +‎ -ish.

Adjective

dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)

1. (obsolete) Stupid, dull.
2. Melancholy, sad.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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 […].

   • 1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

     VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.

Derived terms

• dumpishly
• dumpishness

Translations

melancholy, sad — see melancholy,‎ sad

Anagrams

• phumdis