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What is the adjective for dumps?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs dump and dumple which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dumplingy
  1. (informal) Resembling a dumpling, dumpling-like.
  2. (informal) Of, or pertaining to, dumplings.
dumpy
  1. short and thick; stout or stocky
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In one hilarious scene, this frazzled, menopausal, dumpy housewife eyes up a parking space in the supermarket car park.”
      “The abandoned house stood in a dumpy state, with shattered windows and overgrown weeds in the yard, displaying severe degradation and neglect.”
dumpty
  1. Alternative form of dumpy
  2. Examples:
    1. “He was an imposing figure, a cross between Humpty Dumpty and a brigadier, who had rowed hard in his youth.”
      “For hundreds of years, he was left shattered after falling off a wall but Humpty Dumpty has been put back together in a politically correct version of the nursery rhyme.”
      “Along the way, she meets a cavalcade of kooks and strange creatures including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwocky.”
dumpier
  1. comparative form of dumpy: more dumpy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The drab brown print dresses and dowdy necklines make her look dumpier than nature or the part demand.”
      “If you're not sure which bird you are looking at, then remember that chiffchaffs are darker and dumpier, with a less prominent eye-stripe.”
      “Worcester homes may be older and dumpier, but we take pride in the fact that our property taxes are high enough to cause chronic nosebleeds.”
dumpiest
  1. superlative form of dumpy: most dumpy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Sudan problems, the formation of a unity government is the dumpiest way forward ever.”
      “Thus brilliant innovations took place in the dumpiest of outfits as leather sandals, elastic-waist jeans and old T-shirts became ubiquitous.”
      “Step forward the dreariest, dumpiest star on British television, Caroline Quentin, who, for much of the series, looked as if she was being wheeled round on castors.”
dumped
dumping
dumpled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dumple
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