DINGY
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(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”
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; “a miner’s begrimed face”; “dingy linen”; “grimy hands”; “grubby little fingers”; “a grungy kitchen”
dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)
drab; shabby; dirty; squalid
Synonyms
• (drab): dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grimy
Antonyms
• (drab): bright, clean
Etymology 2
Noun
dingy (plural dingies)
Alternative form of dinghy
Anagrams
• dying
Source: Wiktionary
Din"gey, Din"gy, Din"ghy, n. Etym: [Bengalee dingi.]
1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.]
Malcom.
2. A ship's smallest boat.
Din"gy, a. [Compar. Dingier; superl. Dingiest.] Etym: [Prob. fr.
dung. Cf. Dungy.]
Definition: Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
"Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition