lumpish

Meaning

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. (obsolete) Full of lumps; lumpy.
6. (obsolete) Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
7. (obsolete) Miserable, sad.

Synonyms

dull

ponderous

lumpy

heavy

unthinking

lumpen

heavily-laden

stupid

clumsy

thick

awkward

beefy

lubberly

cumbersome

cumbrous

dabbling

gauche

gross

hefty

inapt

labored

laboured

leaden

logy

loutish

maladroit

massive

onerous

pursy

saturnine

slouch

squirt

stodgy

stubbed

thickset

unapt

ungainly

unhandy

unskillful

waterlogged

weighty

heavy handed

heavy and firm

big and fat

skilless

pregnant

big

blockish

blocky

bluff

boring

bouncing

bulky

burly

clownish

clumpy

coarse

crass

Hyphenated as

lump‧ish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlʌmpɪʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lumprissh

In summary

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.