# lumpish

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈlʌmpɪʃ/

## Definitions
1. Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.
2. Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
3. Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
4. Of sound: dull, heavy.
5. Full of lumps; lumpy.
6. Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
7. Miserable, sad.

## 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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