lumpish

1. (figurative)Examples: "[H]e emerged from some struggling trees, and looked out upon a wild moorish country, composed of a succession of swelling lumpish hills, […]"; "Continental soldiers looked lumpish beside our lean-bred fellows: but against my supple Nejdis the British in their turn looked lumpish."; "But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances."figuratively

2. (figurative)Examples: "So forth he vvent, / VVith heauy looke and lumpiſh pace, that plaine / In him bevvraid great grudge and maltalent; / His ſteed eke ſeemd t'apply his ſteps to his intent."; "[A] ſong I prethee, I loue theſe French moouings; oh they are ſo cleane if you treade them true, you ſhal hit them to a haire; ſing, ſing, ſing ſome odde and fantaſticall thing, for I cannot abide these dull and lumpiſh tunes, the Muſition ſtands longer a pricking them then I vvould doe to heare them: no, no, no, giue mee your light ones, that goe nimbly and quicke, and are full of changes, and carrie ſvveet deuiſion […]"; "But I have greatly neglected the knovvledge of God, vvhen hee threatneth, I am ſenſeleſs; in his preſence, I am irreverent, dead-hearted vvhen I appear before him; lumpiſh in Prayer, looſe in Meditation […]"Synonyms: loggish, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headedAntonyms: brainless, dumb, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, insensible, lowbrow, mindlessfiguratively

3. (figurative)Examples: "The uplifted Hanger dropped from his Hand, and he fell proſtrate on the Floor vvith a lumpiſh Noiſe, and his Halfpence rattled in his Pocket; the red Liquor vvhich his Veins contained, and the vvhite Liquor vvhich the Pot contained, ran in one Stream dovvn his Face and his Clothes."; "Thou bear'ſt aloof, and look'ſt vvith high diſdain, / Upon the dull mechanic train; / VVhoſe nerveleſs ſtrains flag on in languid tone, / Lifeless and lumpiſh as the bagpipe's drovvzy drone."; "No sounds but the steady ticking of the clock, and the lumpish snoring of a large dog stretched on a mat outside the dining-room door, disturbed the mysterious morning stillness of hall and staircase."figuratively

4. (obsolete)obsolete

5. (obsolete)Examples: "[I]t is better to have a ſhaft [of an arrow] a litle to ſhort than over longe, ſomevvhat to light, than over lumpiſhe, a litle to ſmal, than a greate deale to big, […]"obsolete

6. (obsolete)Examples: "He [the Devil] marketh well […] mennes complexions within thẽ [them], health, or ſicknes, good humours or badde, by which they be light hearted or lumpiſh, ſtrong hearted, or faynt & fieble of ſpirite, bolde and hardy, or timorous and fearefull of courage."; "After them vvent Diſpleaſure and Pleaſaunce, / He looking lompiſh and full ſullein ſad, / And hanging dovvne his heauy countenaunce; / She chearfull freſh and full of ioyaunce glad, / As if no ſorrovv ſhe ne felt ne dread; […]"; "Vpon this vvarrant, ſhall you haue acceſſe, / VVhere you, vvith Siluia, may conferre at large. / For ſhe is lumpiſh, heauy, mellancholy, / And (for your friends ſake) vvill be glad of you; / VVhere you may temper her, by your perſvvaſion, / To hate yong Valentine, and loue my friend."Synonyms: atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallenAntonyms: dejected, depressed, discontented, dissatisfied, gloomy, miserable, sad, unhappyfigurativelyobsolete