Synonyms and Antonyms of dumpy
1
being compact and broad in build and often short in stature
- dumpy little toddlers growing into lanky children
beefy, brawny, bulky, burly, husky, sturdy, thick, thickish, weighty
chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby
paunchy, potbellied
flabby, soft
delicate, fragile, frail, puny
lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin
angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy
scraggy, scrawny, slight
anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, skeletal, wasted
spindly, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry
2
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
- we could only find rooms at a dumpy motel on the outskirts of the city
beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels (or down-at-heel), grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, ratty, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, tatterdemalion, tatty, threadbare, timeworn, tumbledown
abandoned, unkept
desolate, forlorn, godforsaken
broken-down, decrepit, tired, worn-out
bedraggled, dingy, ragged, tattered
decaying, deteriorated, deteriorating, rackety, ramshackle, rattletrap, rickety, tumbledown
broken, damaged, destroyed, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, ruined, wrecked
