frump

1. 1.

   a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman

   “she got a reputation as a frump”

   “she's a real dog”

   Synonymsdog

   Broaderunpleasant woman

Other forms of frump

plural

frumps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frump

What does frump mean?

frump means "a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman".

How many syllables are in frump?

frump has 1 syllable: frump. In IPA it is /ˈfɹʌmp/.

What is another word for frump?

Close synonyms include dog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frump a common word?

frump is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.