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DUMPISH

Definition: DUMPISH

DUMPISH

Adjective

1. Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DUMPISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Synonyms within Context: DUMPISH

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Translation: DUMPISH

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

грустный (dolorous, lamentable, melancholy, mirthless, sad, wailful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tužan (disappointing, dismal, distressed, distressful, distressing, doleful, elegiac, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, tearful, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desalentado (depressed, despondent, discouraged, dispirited). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ledsen (dismal, gaunt, miserable, sad, sorrowful, sorry, upset). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DUMPISH

Misspellings

"DUMPISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dumais, Dumiso. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DUMPISH

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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