Word Meanings - DUMPISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert. -- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to DUMPISH)

• MOPSICAL
  Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
• MOPISH
  Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mop"ish*ly, adv. -- Mop"ish*ness, n.
• MOPSEY; MOPSY
  1. A moppet. 2. A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.
• MOP
  1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. 2. A fair where servants are hired. or rags are fastened. A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop.
• MOPE-EYED
  Shortsighted; purblind.
• MOPLAH
  One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• MOPE
  A dull, spiritless person. Burton.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak. 2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. 3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. Bp. Reynolds. 4. Favorable
• MOPSTICK
  The long handle of a mop.
• MOPEFUL
  Mopish.
• STUPID
  1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid,
• DUMPISH
  Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy. " A . . . dumpish and sour life." Lord Herbert. -- Dump"ish*ly, adv. -- Dump"ish*ness, n.
• MOPUS
  A mope; a drone. Swift.
• MOPBOARD
  A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
• MOPPET
  A long-haired pet dog. (more info) 1. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
• THERMOPHILIC
  Heat-loving; -- applied esp. to certain bacteria.
• CHROMOPHANE
  A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods
• CYMOPHANOUS
  Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
• TOMOPTERIS
  A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs . This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.
• NOMOPELMOUS
  Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.
• SPERMOPHYTE
  Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.
• CORMOPHYLOGENY
  The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.
• HOMOPTERA
  A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.
• HOMOPHYLIC
  Relating to homophily.
• ENTOMOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
• CYMOPHANE
  See CHRYSOBERYL
• SPHYGMOPHONE
  An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
• CHROMOPHOTOGRAPHY
  The art of producing photographs in colors.
• ENTOMOPHILOUS
  Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
• COSMOPOLITICAL
  Having the character of a cosmopolite. Hackluyt.
• THERMOPHONE
  1. A portable form of telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer. 2. A telephone involving heat effects, as changes in temperature due to pulsations of the line current in a fine wire connected with