frumpishly

1. 1.

   in a dowdy unfashionable manner

   “she dresses dowdily”

   Synonymsdowdilyfrumpily

Questions about frumpishly

What does frumpishly mean?

frumpishly means "in a dowdy unfashionable manner".

How many syllables are in frumpishly?

frumpishly has 3 syllables: frum-pish-ly. The stress falls on "frum".

What is another word for frumpishly?

Close synonyms include dowdily, frumpily. 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 frumpishly a common word?

frumpishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.