Meaning

2 senses
  1. Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing, or being clothing of this kind.

    women in frumpish dresses

  2. (dated)Bad-tempered.

More definitions
  • primly out of date

Forms

more frumpish, most frumpish
Comparativemore frumpish Lesson
Superlativemost frumpish Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
poorly dressed:frumpy
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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