dingy English

Meaning dingy meaning

What does dingy mean?

dingy

— adjective (= begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot a miner's begrimed face dingy linen grimy hands grubby little fingers a grungy kitchen

— adjective (= dirty, muddied, muddy) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; is often used in combination dirty a dirty (or dingy) white the muddied grey of the sea muddy colors dirty-green walls dirty-blonde hair

— adjective (= blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim) causing dejection a blue day the dark days of the war a week of rainy depressing weather a disconsolate winter landscape the first dismal dispiriting days of November a dark gloomy day grim rainy weather

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dirty

dim

murky

grimy

gloomy

dull

dreary

dismal

dark

squalid

sorry

sombre

somber

shabby

raunchy

obscure

muddy

muddied

grungy

grubby

grim

flyblown

drear

drab

disconsolate

blue

begrimed

wan

tatty

tarnished

sooty

smutty

slumlike

shaggy

shady

seedy

scruffy

scrimy

recondite

poor

opaque

lustreless

lugubrious

lacklustre

impure

grey

foul

filthy

feculent

dusky

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Dark

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  gloomy dingy the shadows

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  dull faded washed out drab dingy flushed clouded grayish somber