adj
Meaning 1
Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
frumpy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈfɹʌm.pɪ/
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US: /ˈfɹʌm.pi/
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rhymes with (US) -ʌmpi
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CMU ARPABET: F R AH1 M P IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Bad-tempered.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
primly out of date
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dowdy, frumpish
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Either from frump or from Middle English frumple + -y.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: ouderwets — dowdy, unfashionable
- Dutch: stijlloos — dowdy, unfashionable
- Finnish: tyylitön — dowdy, unfashionable
- French: démodé — dowdy, unfashionable
- German: ohne jeden Schick — dowdy, unfashionable
- German: stillos — dowdy, unfashionable
- Portuguese: antiquado — dowdy, unfashionable
- Portuguese: ultrapassado — dowdy, unfashionable
- Portuguese: "démodé" — dowdy, unfashionable
- Russian: безвку́сный (bezvkúsnyj) — dowdy, unfashionable
- Russian: немо́дный (nemódnyj) — dowdy, unfashionable
- Serbo-Croatian: neukusno — dowdy, unfashionable
- Serbo-Croatian: demodirano — dowdy, unfashionable
- Serbo-Croatian: staromodno — dowdy, unfashionable
- Swedish: tantig — dowdy, unfashionable
- Vietnamese: lôi thôi — dowdy, unfashionable
- Vietnamese: lếch thếch — dowdy, unfashionable