slumpy

comparative slumpier · superlative slumpiest

1. Characteristic of an economic slump.

   Adidas presents a new line of sleek forward-looking clothes at midrange prices, invigorating slumpy SoHo in the process.

   2009 March 5, Mike Albo, “If the Apple Store Sold Clothing ...”, in New York Times

2. informalSlumping or sagging, or tending to slump or sag.

   Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence.

   2014, Brian Oliver, quoting Nelson Ottah, The Trial of Biafra's Leaders, 1980, quoted in The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 111

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   Someone put together a clean-lined, benignly elegant chair's chair — shaped somewhat like a midcentury desk chair, only slumpier.

   2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere, Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, page 134

   Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman.

   2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion

3. UKUSdialectalEasily broken through; boggy; marshy.

   […] a large extent of rushy ground, either dry or hard, or slumpy and wet, […]

   1853, George Johnston, The Botany of the Eastern Borders, I., page 250

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   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 […]

   1843, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Attaché Or Sam Slick in England, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 219

   […] making a rock his easy-chair, and a pair of hunting-boots his slippers; letting his dressing-gown be a woollen shirt or an india-rubber overcoat; finding his dainty, creamy-leaved books in white birch trees, or yeasty, frothy, river-rapids, and for delicate annotations making big tracts through the slumpy alluvion of the forest[…]

   1869, G. M. Hoppin, “The Adirondac Lakes”, in The Broadway, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 263

   The softening of the great body of snow renders the roads slumpy and full of "Thank-ye-ma'ams," so that sleighing is not altogether a blissful experience just now.

   1877, John Russell Bartlett, anonymous quotee, Providence Journal, letter from Maine, date unknown, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, 4th edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 611

   Synonyms: poachy