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单词 lumpish
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Definition of lumpish in English:

lumpish

adjective ˈlʌmpɪʃˈləmpɪʃ
  • 1Roughly or clumsily formed or shaped.

    those large and lumpish hands could produce exquisitely fine work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is something cartoonish about him - dangling arms, head that looks like its rolling off his neck, lumpish face and deadpan expression.
    • A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
    • For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
    • If he governs according to what he said during the campaign, it will be a lumpish mess at best and could be disaster for the Democratic Party.
    • Its waiting list is described as ‘very, very long’: it seems that the great and the good of Scotland are anxious to join in whatever goes on in that lumpish piece of neo-classical building in Buccleuch Street known as the Archers' Hall.
    • The buildings are formed from quite blunt, lumpish volumes, which are then cut and deformed according to an abstract procedure.
    • She feels it hanging round her like a great, lumpish stone.
    • The style shows its best in New York, but even there it was relatively heavy, lumpish, and derivative.
    • The hands, however, did no good, for she was scarcely a few feet in the door when she tripped heavily over something large and lumpish, and half face-planted into a wall, legs still tangled in the object she'd tripped over.
    • He studied antiquity in immense detail, in search of a basis for reforming modern architecture, which he thought had become lumpish and boring.
    • The simplest and most lumpish fungus has a peculiar interest to us, compared with a mere mass of earth, because it is so obviously organic and related to ourselves, however remote.
    • This potentially lumpish dish was served in a parfait glass, covered in a veil of horseradish cream.
    Synonyms
    clumsy, awkward, heavy-footed, blundering, bumbling, inept, maladroit, uncoordinated, ungainly, oafish, like a bull in a china shop, ungraceful, gauche, cumbersome, ponderous, laborious, stolid
    1. 1.1 (of a person) stupid and lethargic.
      I had really been rather lumpish and dull during the drive
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
      • Silent and lumpish, he seems to live chiefly through the random fixations of his senses.
      • She is a ghastly, lumpish, sullenly withdrawn girl who leaves great quantities of unflushed paper in the toilet and feeds exclusively on rocklike muffins she constantly bakes from a packaged mix.
      • I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.
      • Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
      Synonyms
      unintelligent, ignorant, dense, brainless, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, dull, slow-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish

Derivatives

  • lumpishly

  • adverb ˈlʌmpɪʃ(ə)liˈləmpɪʃli
    • Not even his pleasure in lumpishly reliable movies can prevent him noticing the black hole on the near horizon.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Michael, the Human Onion, a useless fairground attraction, sits lumpishly in a tent, failing to impress his young audience.
      • I refuse to believe it had to be done so lumpishly.
      • The two young lieutenants nodded lumpishly and gaped at each other in stunned and flaccid reluctance, each waiting for the other to initiate the procedure of taking the prisoner outside and shooting him.
  • lumpishness

  • noun ˈlʌmpɪʃnəsˈləmpɪʃnəs
    • The filth, disease, and lumpishness which are evident in the wartime photos of her family, and actually took a visible toll on her ancestral embodiment, are experienced in the daughter and granddaughter's psychological life.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There's something about seals and sea lions - what we perhaps see as a lumpishness or loutishness, or the lack of excitement as they doze - that does not immediately endear them to humans.
      • It’s a combination of his personal habits, his lumpishness, and his unwarranted conceit that simply repulses me.

Rhymes

frumpish, grumpish, plumpish
 
 

Definition of lumpish in US English:

lumpish

adjectiveˈləmpɪʃˈləmpiSH
  • 1Roughly or clumsily formed or shaped.

    those large and lumpish hands could produce exquisitely fine work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
    • The hands, however, did no good, for she was scarcely a few feet in the door when she tripped heavily over something large and lumpish, and half face-planted into a wall, legs still tangled in the object she'd tripped over.
    • The simplest and most lumpish fungus has a peculiar interest to us, compared with a mere mass of earth, because it is so obviously organic and related to ourselves, however remote.
    • The style shows its best in New York, but even there it was relatively heavy, lumpish, and derivative.
    • He studied antiquity in immense detail, in search of a basis for reforming modern architecture, which he thought had become lumpish and boring.
    • This potentially lumpish dish was served in a parfait glass, covered in a veil of horseradish cream.
    • There is something cartoonish about him - dangling arms, head that looks like its rolling off his neck, lumpish face and deadpan expression.
    • Its waiting list is described as ‘very, very long’: it seems that the great and the good of Scotland are anxious to join in whatever goes on in that lumpish piece of neo-classical building in Buccleuch Street known as the Archers' Hall.
    • The buildings are formed from quite blunt, lumpish volumes, which are then cut and deformed according to an abstract procedure.
    • She feels it hanging round her like a great, lumpish stone.
    • A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
    • If he governs according to what he said during the campaign, it will be a lumpish mess at best and could be disaster for the Democratic Party.
    Synonyms
    clumsy, awkward, heavy-footed, blundering, bumbling, inept, maladroit, uncoordinated, ungainly, oafish, like a bull in a china shop, ungraceful, gauche, cumbersome, ponderous, laborious, stolid
    1. 1.1 (of a person) stupid and lethargic.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
      • She is a ghastly, lumpish, sullenly withdrawn girl who leaves great quantities of unflushed paper in the toilet and feeds exclusively on rocklike muffins she constantly bakes from a packaged mix.
      • Silent and lumpish, he seems to live chiefly through the random fixations of his senses.
      • Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
      • I realised I had missed seeing this incredible event by a matter of seconds - like the lumpish ploughman who fails to witness the fall of Icarus in Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts.
      Synonyms
      unintelligent, ignorant, dense, brainless, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, dull, slow-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish
 
 
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