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adj
Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing, or being clothing of this kind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Bad-tempered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
primly out of date
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dowdy, frumpy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English frump Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English frumpish From frump + -ish.
