lumpish

adjective

Definition of lumpishnext
1
as in wobbly

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as in leaden

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as in knobbly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumpish
  1. wobbly
  2. leaden
  3. knobby
  4. lumbering
  5. burdensome
  6. knobbed
  7. shambling
  8. ponderous
Adjective
  • There’s a wobbly job market and stubborn inflation, which make paychecks uncertain and diminish buying power.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 13 July 2026
  • Fewer and fewer companies offer pensions, however, making that stool increasingly wobbly.
    — Trina Paul,Dan Avery, CNBC, 10 July 2026
Definition of wobbly
Adjective
  • Character movements can feel heavy, almost leaden, and backgrounds are often stripped down to their simplest forms, leaving them flat and artificial.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 26 June 2026
  • Bulgur is one of those wheat variants that in this country seems tethered to an unfair reputation as a leaden relic of 1970s health-food fads.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
Definition of leaden
Adjective
  • Crews — including at least one person captured wearing an old crew shirt from a previous Swift tour — were seen wheeling in greenery and flowers, as well as knobby tree branches and lush foliage.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid—porcelain white, with knobby limbs and thick, sturdy legs—has been used in production at European automotive factories owned by Mercedes-Benz.
    — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of knobby
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  • The Cubs players continued to taunt Ruth at every opportunity, and a big one came their way in the bottom of the fourth inning when Jurges slashed a sinking liner into right field and the lumbering, top-heavy Babe muffed a shoestring catch.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
Definition of lumbering
Adjective
  • Permitting delays, burdensome regulatory processes and excessive fees levied by government all create the ideal conditions for stagnant housing production.
    — Jake Day, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2026
  • The tests can be burdensome, and specialist capacity is limited.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 15 July 2026
Definition of burdensome
Adjective
  • The knobbed Lochlan fireplace screen does not disappoint.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Definition of knobbed
Adjective
  • With almost no plan, Sonny makes a shambling attempt at an armed robbery, only to end up trapped in the bank with the manager and five female tellers as his hostages.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
  • One rarely gains a sense of what people look like (beyond the son’s bulky physique and shambling movements, in which the mother ‘caught a flash of her brother’).
    — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of shambling
Adjective
  • In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • The bass kept boring doggedly toward shore, lunging and vaulting into the air in ponderous leaps.
    — Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2026
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