The meaning of Dowdy

noun

A lock of wool matted with dung hanging from the hindquarters of a sheep.

Usage examples:

Farmers and farmers-hands may regularly cut off the dags to keep their sheep clean.

verb

Cut dags from (a sheep).

Usage examples:

We failed to have the ewes dagged

adjective

Gloomy and drab.

Usage examples:

A dingy room

adjective

(of a place or material) dark and unattractive esp. because of being dirty or not cared for

Usage examples:

The stores seemed old and dingy, their lights too dim and their ceilings too low.

adjective

Lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull.

Usage examples:

The landscape was drab and grey

noun

Fabric of a dull light brown colour.

Usage examples:

A young man dressed in drabs

noun

A slovenly woman.

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Usage examples:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Usage examples:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Usage examples:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

verb

Gradually grow faint and disappear.

Usage examples:

The light had faded and dusk was advancing

noun

The process of becoming less bright.

Usage examples:

The sun can cause colour fade

noun

A shot causing the ball to deviate to the right (or, for a left-handed golfer, the left)

Usage examples:

When they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade

adjective

Scruffy and neglected in appearance.

Usage examples:

Seedy-looking doormen in frowzy uniforms

adjective

Not attractive, new, or fashionable

Usage examples:

She was wearing a frowzy dress in a dull shade of purple.

adjective

Not attractive, new, or fashionable

Usage examples:

She was wearing a frowzy dress in a dull shade of purple.

adjective

Dowdy and old-fashioned (used of a woman or women's clothes).

Usage examples:

The most frumpish wedding dress ever

adjective

(of a person or their clothes) old-fashioned and not attractive

Usage examples:

I felt fat and frumpy., a frumpy cardigan

adjective

Dowdy and old-fashioned (typically used of a woman or her clothes).

Usage examples:

I look like a frumpy mess

adjective

(of a person or their clothes) old-fashioned and not attractive

Usage examples:

I felt fat and frumpy., a frumpy cardigan

adjective

Having or showing a lack of physical grace, elegance, or refinement.

Usage examples:

He came skidding to an inelegant halt

adjective

Not graceful and attractive in character or appearance

Usage examples:

Inelegant writing

adjective

Giving an impression of dull domesticity; dowdy or unfashionable.

Usage examples:

She wore a big mumsy dress

noun

One's mother.

Usage examples:

So, mumsy with baby pottering about, or family going to the zoo for the day can potentially have an…

adjective

A mumsy woman has an old-fashioned appearance, like that of a traditional mother

Usage examples:

As she became more successful, she changed her mumsy hairstyle for something more glamorous.

adjective

Not modern; belonging to or typical of a time in the past

Usage examples:

Old-fashioned clothes/ideas/music, she’s old-fashioned (= her views are typical of the past, not th…

adjective

Old-fashioned.

Usage examples:

An outmoded victorian building

adjective

Feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy.

Usage examples:

I was sad and subdued

adjective

(of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.

abbreviation

Seasonal affective disorder.

adjective

Shabby and untidy or dirty.

Usage examples:

A teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy t-shirt

adjective

In poor condition through long use or lack of care.

Usage examples:

A conscript in a shabby uniform saluted the car

adjective

Looking old and in bad condition because of wear or lack of care

Usage examples:

The man wore a long, shabby coat., we parked near bobby’s shabby trailer., her salary is $305,000 t…

adjective

(of glue, paint, or other substances) not fully dry and retaining a slightly sticky feel.

Usage examples:

The paint was still tacky

adjective

Showing poor taste and quality.

Usage examples:

Even in her faintly tacky costumes, she won our hearts

adjective

(of a substance) sticky

Usage examples:

I left a fingerprint in the tacky paint., she reads those tacky romance novels.

adjective

Not fashionable or popular at a particular time.

Usage examples:

They lived in an unfashionable part of london

adjective

Not modern or popular

Usage examples:

They paid less for the house because it was in an unfashionable part of town.

adjective

Not arranged neatly and in order.

Usage examples:

The place was dreadfully untidy