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Dingy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DINGY, a. Soiled; sullied; of a dark color; brown; dusky; dun.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
2: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy]
3: 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" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (dingier; -est) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1691 1. dirty, unclean 2. shabby, squalid • dingily adverb • dinginess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (dingier, dingiest) dirty-looking, drab, dull-coloured. Derivatives: dingily adv. dinginess n. Etymology: perh. ult. f. OE dynge DUNG

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dingey Din"gey, Dingy Din"gy, Dinghy Din"ghy, n. [Bengalee dingi.] 1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.] --Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dingy 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dingier, dingiest) 1. A dingy building or place is rather dark and depressing, and perhaps dirty. Shaw took me to his rather dingy office. ADJ 2. Dingy clothes, curtains, or furnishings look dirty or dull. ...wallpaper with stripes of dingy yellow. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Dun, dusky, brown. 2. Soiled, sullied, smirched, dimmed, dulled, faded.

Moby Thesaurus

Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, anemic, ashen, ashy, besmirched, bled white, bloodless, blotchy, broken-down, cadaverous, canescent, cheerless, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-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, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grubby, grungy, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, 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, run-down, sad, sallow, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shadowy, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, 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