frumpy

Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.

Adjective

  1. Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
    • She came to the door in a frumpy housedress and bedroom slippers.
    • 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...
  2. Bad-tempered.

Origin

Either from frump or from Middle English frumple + -y.

Forms

frumpier frumpiest

Related

frump frumpily frumpiness

Derived

unfrumpy