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Definition of dumpy :
1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
2. Sullen or discontented.
Synonyms:
seedy, dilapidated, thickset, lowset, run-down, neglected, tacky, chubby, beat-up, stumpy, sleazy, stocky, buxom, low-set, scruffy, underslung, stout, chunky, ratty, big, podgy, roly-poly, moth-eaten, tatty, tumbledown, thick, miserable, heavyset, obese, stubby, down-at-the-heels, pudgy, tatterdemalion, plump, blocky, short, stodgy, grungy, fat, bombed-out, squatty, dog-eared, mean, ample, overweight, threadbare, mangy, squat, scrubby, compact, timeworn, lumpy, tubby
Usage examples:
- It has lain, in lavender as it were, in the dumpy note book, waiting for a publisher to ride that way and rescue it; and here he is at last, not a bit afraid that to this age it may appear " Victorian." - "The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan", Daisy Ashford.
- Dumpy children, bulky men, compressed old women with baked faces, and comical squat dogs, kept the villages partly alive. - "The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete", George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009.
- Silver recognized the voice and the dumpy figure of his visitor. - "Red Money", Fergus Hume.