dowdy English

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What does dowdy mean?

dowdy

— noun deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

— adjective lacking in smartness or taste a dowdy grey outfit a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room

— adjective (= frumpish) primly out of date nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game

Dowdy

— noun (= Dowding) British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

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frumpish

frumpy

shabby

old-fashioned

tacky

pandowdy

unprogressive

unfashionable

tatty

stuffy

stodgy

standpat

slovenly

shaggy

seedy

scruffy

passee

passe

outmoded

out-of-date

old-hat

nonprogressive

fusty

drab

dirty

dingy

antique

antiquated

antediluvian

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Hugh Dowding

Dowding

Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding

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States Time Aspectual time Age

Old, not new

• What words describe something that is old and not good?
  crumbling declining decrepit dowdy effete faded past its prime rusty worn out