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

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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

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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

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