'Dingy' definitions:
Definition of 'dingy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
(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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Dingy'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Dingy'
From: GCIDE
- Dingey \Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee dingi.]
- 1. a small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters. [Written also dinghey.] --Malcom. [1913 Webster]
- 2. a small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat, carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars, sail, or a motor. [PJC]
- 3. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
- Syn: dory, rowboat. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'dingy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quaker-colored,
- 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