Meaning

2 senses
  1. Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.

    She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.

    ohne jeden Schick, stillos

    безвку́сныйbezvkúsnyj, немо́дныйnemódnyj

  2. (dated)Bad-tempered.

More definitions
  • primly out of date

Examples

3 sentences
  1. She had a really frumpy outfit on today.

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  2. In fact, the tabloids have called the duchess frumpy, dumpy and worse.

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  3. I think at the end of the series it will all just be a dream for the frumpy girl.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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dowdy, unfashionable:

Origin

Either from frump or from Middle English frumple + -y.

Either from frump or from Middle English frumple + -y.

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Forms

frumpier, frumpiest
Comparativefrumpier Lesson
Superlativefrumpiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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