slumpy

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈslʌmpi/

Definition of slumpy

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Characteristic of an economic slump.
    “Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.”
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adj

  1. Characteristic of an economic slump.
    “Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.”
  2. (informal)Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.
    “Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.”
    “Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.”
    “Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.”
  3. (UK, US, dialectal)Easily broken through; boggy; marshy.
    “So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]”
    “[…] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]”
    “[…] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest[…]”
    “The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now.”

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Etymology

From slump + -y.

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