slumpy

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slumpy

/ˈslʌmpi/

Rhymes with -ʌmpi

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From slump + -y.

adjective slumpier · slumpiest

Characteristic of an economic slump. Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.
informal Slumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag. Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.
UK, US, dialectal Easily broken through; boggy; marshy. So away goes lunch, and off goes you and the 'Sir,' a trampousin' and trapsein' over the wet grass agin […] and then back by another path that's slumpier than t'other, and twice as long […]
Similar: poachy

Similar: queachy, uliginous

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@misc{slumpy_2026,
  title = {slumpy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slumpy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}