dingy
of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
shabby; dismal.
Origin of dingy
1Other words from dingy
- din·gi·ly, adverb
- din·gi·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with dingy
- dinghy, dingy
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How to use dingy in a sentence
The floors, the doors, the cornices and mouldings are cheap in material, dingily garish in colour.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections | William ArcherAll blacks and carmines—all stolidly sober and brilliantly drunk—all dingily bathless: deeply savagely quietly human.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneShe had saved him from the second-rate, dingy life he had been so dingily ready to accept.
Rough-Hewn | Dorothy CanfieldNow the stateliest craft that ride the Cockney surge are the rackety penny packet and dingily plebeian coal barge.
The Haunts of Old Cockaigne | Alex ThompsonIt is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
Familiar Spanish Travels | W. D. Howells
British Dictionary definitions for dingy
/ (ˈdɪndʒɪ) /
lacking light or brightness; drab
dirty; discoloured
Origin of dingy
1Derived forms of dingy
- dingily, adverb
- dinginess, noun
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