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Dingy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dingy? [adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams [adj] thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [adj] (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dingy: begrimed \| cheerless \| dirty \| dismal \| drab \| drear \| dreary \| gloomy \| grimy \| grubby \| grungy \| impure \| muddied \| muddy \| raunchy \| soiled \| sorry \| uncheerful \| unclean Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dingy: achromatic \| achromic \| acier \| anemic \| ashen \| ashy \| besmirched \| bled white \| bloodless \| blotchy \| broken-down \| cadaverous \| canescent \| cheerless \| chloranemic \| cinereous \| cinerous \| colorless \| dapple \| dappled \| dappled-gray \| dapple-gray \| dark \| dead \| deadly pale \| deathly pale \| depressing \| dilapidated \| dim \| dimmed \| dirty \| discolored \| dismal \| dove-colored \| dove-gray \| down-at-heel \| drab \| dreary \| dull \| dusky \| dusty \| etiolated \| exsanguinated \| exsanguine \| exsanguineous \| faded \| faint \| fallow \| flat \| fuliginous \| ghastly \| glaucescent \| glaucous \| gloomy \| gray \| gray-black \| gray-brown \| gray-colored \| gray-drab \| grayed \| gray-green \| grayish \| gray-spotted \| gray-toned \| gray-white \| grimy \| griseous \| grizzle \| grizzled \| grizzly \| grubby \| grungy \| haggard \| hueless \| hypochromic \| iron-gray \| lackluster \| leaden \| lead-gray \| livid \| lurid \| lusterless \| mat \| mealy \| messy \| miry \| mouse-colored \| mouse-gray \| mousy \| muddy \| murky \| neutral \| pale \| pale as death \| pale-faced \| pallid \| pasty \| pearl \| pearl-gray \| pearly \| Quaker-colored \| run-down \| sad \| sallow \| scruffy \| seedy \| shabby \| shadowy \| sickly \| silver \| silvered \| silver-gray \| silvery \| slate-colored \| slaty \| slovenly \| smirched \| smirchy \| smoke-gray \| smoky \| smudgy \| smutchy \| smutty \| snuffy \| sober \| soiled \| somber \| sooty \| steel-gray \| steely \| stone-colored \| sullied \| tacky \| tallow-faced \| tarnished \| taupe \| tenebrous \| threadbare \| tired \| toneless \| uncolored \| untidy \| wan \| washed-out \| waxen \| weak \| whey-faced \| white See Also \| Dingy In Webster's Dictionary \Din"gy\, a. [Compar. {Dingier}; superl. {Dingiest}.] [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. {Dungy}.] Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. ``Scraps of dingy paper.'' --Macaulay.

Dingy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dingy?

[adj] depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
[adj] thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
[adj] (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

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Dingy In Webster's Dictionary

\Din"gy\, a. [Compar. {Dingier}; superl. {Dingiest}.]
[Prob. fr. dung. Cf. {Dungy}.]
Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
``Scraps of dingy paper.'' --Macaulay.

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