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FRUMPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frumpy mean?
• FRUMPY (adjective)
The adjective FRUMPY has 1 sense:
1. primly out of date
Familiarity information: FRUMPY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: frumpier
Superlative: frumpiest
Superlative: frumpiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primly out of date
Synonyms:
Context example:
nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
Similar:
unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Derivation:
frump (a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman)
Context examples
This is my grumpy, frumpy story, and we'll keep it to ourselves, Trot!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Let that pass. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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