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- Dictionarydin·gy/ˈdinjē/
adjective
- 1. gloomy and drab: "a dingy room"
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1. : dirty, unclean. dingy fingernails. 2. : shabby, squalid. a dingy hotel room. dingily. ˈdin-jə-lē. adverb. dinginess. ˈdin-jē-nəs. noun. Synonyms. bedraggled. befouled. begrimed. bemired. besmirched. blackened. cruddy. dirty.
(of a place or material) dark and unattractive esp. because of being dirty or not cared for: The stores seemed old and dingy, their lights too dim and their ceilings too low. (Definition of dingy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of dingy. dingy.
Dingy definition: of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.. See examples of DINGY used in a sentence.
1.adjective. A dingy building or place is rather dark and depressing, and perhaps dirty. Shaw took me to his rather dingy office. Synonyms: dull, dark, dim, gloomy More Synonyms of dingy. 2.adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Dingy clothes, curtains, or furnishings look dirty or dull. ...wallpaper with stripes of dingy yellow.
If something is dingy, it's dirty. If you spend your days as a chimney sweeper, you probably look pretty dingy.
1. lacking light or brightness; drab. 2. dirty; discoloured. [C18: perhaps from an earlier dialect word related to Old English dynge dung] ˈdingily adv. ˈdinginess n. dingy. ( ˈdɪŋɪ) vb, pl -gies, -gying or -gied. ( tr) slang Brit to ignore (a person) or avoid (an event)
Definition of dingy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
DINGY definition: dirty and not bright: . Learn more.
From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from an unrecorded Middle English *dingy, *düngy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of Old English duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y.
of a dark, dull, or dirty color: The clothes were dingy and needed bleaching. shabby; dismal; dark: a dingy little hotel room. din•gi•ness, n. [uncountable] The darkness couldn't hide the dinginess of the room.
