0 (of a person or their clothes) old-fashioned and not attractive:
She was lampooned alternatively as a sinister commissar and as a frumpy housewife in a polka dot dress.
In the color episodes, she discards her frumpy wardrobe and steps into more stylish attire.
The term later developed negative implications, and in some instances such women were stereotyped as being frumpy.
He met her again in 1843 when she had become a frumpy, middle-aged matron.
During class, she deliberately wears frumpy clothes to discourage male interest, since the vast majority of her classmates are men.
She is beautiful but hides her beauty behind large glasses and frumpy, old-fashioned clothes.
There was a sense of paralysis, as we watched ourselves slip into a kind of frumpy mediocrity, without the resources or the will to pull ourselves forward.
Rosetta had persuaded the authorities she was harmless, and her frumpy image definitely helped.
