frumpy
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
frumpy (comparative frumpier, superlative frumpiest)
- Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
- She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.
- 2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician ↗, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015
- Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”
- (dated) Bad-tempered.
- French: démodé
- German: ohne jeden Schick, stillos
- Portuguese: antiquado, ultrapassado, "démodé"
- Russian: безвку́сный
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