Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lumpish \Lump"ish\, a.
Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless. ``
Lumpish, heavy, melancholy.''
--Shak. -- Lump"ish*ly, adv.
-- Lump"ish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Like a lump, cloddish, dull, slow-witted. 2 Like lumps, composed of unshaped or mismatched pieces. 3 Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
WordNet
adj. mentally sluggish [syn: lumpen, unthinking]
Usage examples of "lumpish".
The hawsers and the hairy cablets did indeed look heavy, lumpish and untidy with these Irish pennants all along - not perhaps unseamanlike, but something that no crack spit-and-polish ship could bear for a moment.
I can outgallop all those lumpish, grumbly, dice-playing, beer-bellied old men!
A little slow and lumpish was this God of the Age of European Predominance, but, though his mills ground slowly, men were assured that they ground with ultimate exactitude.
The few plain domestics near her dozed and nodded through the hour, and so gained some physical preparation for the toils of the week, but their spiritual natures were as clearly dormant as their lumpish bodies.
The hawsers and the hairy cablets did indeed look heavy, lumpish and untidy with these Irish pennants all along - not perhaps unseamanlike, but something that no crack spit-and-polish ship could bear for a moment.
Twixt his two mightie armes him vp he snatcht,And crusht his carkasse so against his brest,That the disdainfull soule he thence dispatcht,And th'idle breath all vtterly exprest:Tho when he felt him dead, a downe he kestThe lumpish corse vnto the senselesse grownd.
Unluckily for me, he had been married to my lumpish sister Allia for the past twenty years, so we were bonded inescapably: Verontius and I were family.
It reminded Chemayev of dilapidated hovels in the villages of his childhood, habitations humbled by weather and hard times into something lumpish, barely distinguishable from a mound of earth, a played-out vegetable plot in the back, rusted garden tools leaning against bowed steps, its thatched roof molting, sided with unpainted boards worn to a shit brown, and something ancient, howlingly mad with age and failure, peering out through two dark windows with cracked panes.
The idea that her handsome Sir Zheng could have bestowed his favours on this coarse, lumpish, buck-toothed peasant girl had seemed so preposterous mat she had at first assumed this to be a case of mistaken identity.
Lumpish, pocked, wart-stippled, darkened by a permanent beard shadow with a bluish cast, this countenance was beyond the powers of redemption possessed by the best plastic surgeons in the world, which was no doubt why Nolly applied his resources strictly to dental work.
Two of them were scarcely more than boys, while another pair were thick-set, lumpish, thievish rascals, sodden with drink.