Usually means: Dull, unresponsive, and somewhat stupid.
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  1. lumpish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lumpish: Merriam-Webster
  3. lumpish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lumpish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lumpish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lumpish: Vocabulary.com
  7. lumpish: Wordnik
  8. lumpish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lumpish: Wiktionary
  10. lumpish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lumpish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lumpish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lumpish, lumpish: Dictionary.com
  14. Lumpish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lumpish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lumpish: Rhymezone
  17. Lumpish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lumpish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lumpish: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lumpish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lumpish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumpish: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumpish (adj.): Cats

(Note: See lumpishly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having an ill-defined or rough form or shape like a lump; lumplike.
adjective:  (figurative)
adjective:  Awkward and ungainly in appearance or movement; clumsy, inelegant.
adjective:  Dull and slow in acting, thinking, etc.; without energy; cloddish, lethargic, slow-witted, sluggish.
adjective:  Of sound: dull, heavy.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Full of lumps; lumpy.
adjective:  Of a thing: having a shape and/or weight which makes it inconvenient to move; cumbersome, unwieldy.
adjective:  (figurative) Miserable, sad.

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