Dictionary Definition
frumpish adj : primly out of date; "nothing so
frumpish as last year's gambling game" [syn: dowdy, frumpy]
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English
Adjective
- Poorly dressed;
wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing. More typically used
to describe women than men.
- Women are forced out of despair into frumpish dress after being chewed up and spit out by men.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dowdy, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frowzy, frumpy, grubby, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent, out-of-date,
outmoded, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, stodgy, tacky, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy