slumpy

Characteristic of an economic slump.

Adjective

  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. 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. - 2004, Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere,...
    • 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...
    • Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman. - 2015, Chloe Cole, Coercion:
  3. 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 […] - 1843, Thomas Chandler...
    • […] 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:
    • […] 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...

Origin

From slump + -y.

Forms

slumpier slumpiest

Synonyms

poachy queachy uliginous