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)

He is a dumpish sort of person who looks as if he needed exercise, but he has a sharp clear eye.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried

"It's nothing new, aunt Miriam,—only somehow I felt it particularly this morning,—I have been kept in the house so long by this snow I have got dumpish I suppose.—"

From Queechy by Warner, Susan

"Gee! but you look dumpish and dressed up," said Katy.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.