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dumpy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of dumpy

1 being compact and broad in build and often short in stature

  • dumpy little toddlers growing into lanky children
Synonyms of dumpy

chunky, heavyset, squat, squatty, stocky, stout, stubby, stumpy, thickset
Words Related to dumpy

beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

paunchy, potbellied

flabby, soft
Near Antonyms of dumpy

delicate, fragile, frail, puny

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy

scraggy, scrawny, slight

anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, skeletal, wasted

spindly, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry

2 showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect

  • we could only find rooms at a dumpy motel on the outskirts of the city
Synonyms of dumpy

beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels (or down-at-heel), grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, ratty, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, tatterdemalion, tatty, threadbare, timeworn, tumbledown
Words Related to dumpy

abandoned, unkept

desolate, forlorn, godforsaken

broken-down, decrepit, tired, worn-out

bedraggled, dingy, ragged, tattered

decaying, deteriorated, deteriorating, rackety, ramshackle, rattletrap, rickety, tumbledown

broken, damaged, destroyed, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, ruined, wrecked
Phrases Synonymous with dumpy

gone to seed
Near Antonyms of dumpy

brand-new, fresh, new

cared-for, kept-up, maintained

mended, patched, rebuilt, reconstructed

smart, spiffy, spruce

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