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Definition: DUMPISH |
DUMPISHAdjective1. Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. |
Date "DUMPISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "DUMPISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | levert (be cast down, crestfallen, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, down in the mouth, downcast, heavy-hearted, lethargic, overcast, prostrate, subdued, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be out of spirits, to feel blue, woebegone, yellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpishday deprimido (blue, broken-down, dejected, depressed, dumpy, hagridden, hangdog, heavy-laden, hipped, low, low-spirited, melancholy, subdued), triste (bleak, blue, broken-hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dumpy, gaunt, gloomily, gray, grey, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moody, mopish, mourning, pained, painful, pensive, piteous, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), melancólico (atrabilious, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopish, morose, mournful, mourning, pensive, sad, somber, sombre), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, down, downcast, down-hearted, haggard, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, moped, prostrate, reduced, wan, washed-out, woebegone). (various references) trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful). (various references) грустный (dolorous, lamentable, melancholy, mirthless, sad, wailful). (various references) tužan (disappointing, dismal, distressed, distressful, distressing, doleful, elegiac, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, tearful, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome). (various references) desalentado (depressed, despondent, discouraged, dispirited). (various references) ledsen (dismal, gaunt, miserable, sad, sorrowful, sorry, upset). (various references) сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, comfortless, damp, dark, deplorable, despondent, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpy, elegiac, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful, wan), тупуватий (dullish). (various references) bu"n nản (dejected, dumpy), bu"n chán (ennuied, thin), bu"n bã (dumpy, glum, mopish, plaintive, rueful, sadly, sepulchral, tearful), bu"n (dumpy, joyless, mirthless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DUMPISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dumais, Dumiso. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-i-m-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: dumps, humid, humps. | |
-3 letters: dims, dips, dish, dump, dups, hips, hump, hums, imps, mids, muds, mush, phis, pish, puds, push, shim, ship, simp, spud, sump, umps. | |
-4 letters: dim, dip, dis, duh, dui, dup, hid, him, hip, his, hum, hup, ids, imp, ism, mid, mis, mud, mus, phi, pis, piu, psi, pud, pus, sim. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-i-m-p-s-u" | |
+3 letters: dimorphous, euphemised, mediumship. | |
+4 letters: delphiniums, hesperidium, mediumships. | |
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