dumpish

English

Etymology

From dump +‎ -ish.

Adjective

dumpish (comparative more dumpish, superlative most dumpish)

(obsolete) Stupid, dull.
Sad, melancholy.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice […].

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