dumpish

American  

[duhm-pish] / ˈdʌm pɪʃ /

adjective

1. depressed; sad.

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Other Word Forms

• dumpishly adverb
• dumpishness noun

Etymology

Origin of dumpish

First recorded in 1535–45; dump(s) + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels.

From Time Magazine Archive

And you, foster-brother, if my fame is important to you, do you betake yourself to those dumpish oafs around the fires and try, by any means whatever, to remedy their faint-heartedness.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

She lost her gay spirits, grew dumpish and morose, stuck up her feathers in a bristling way, and pecked at her neighbors if they did so much as look at her.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)

I may be stoutish," he exclaimed, "but I'm not a fat, dumpish figure like that.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie

She lost her gay spirits, grew dumpish and morose, stuck up her feathers in a bristling way, and pecked at her neighbours if they did so much as look at her.

From Queer Little Folks by Stowe, Harriet Beecher