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DOWDIER
DOWDY
dowdy, frumpy, frumpish
(adjective) primly out of date; “nothing so frumpish as last year’s gambling game”
dowdy
(adjective) lacking in smartness or taste; “a dowdy grey outfit”; “a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
dowdier
comparative form of dowdy
Anagrams
• dowried
Source: Wiktionary
DOWDY
Dow"dy, a. [Compar. Dowdier; superl. Dowdiest.] Etym: [Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd flat, dead.]
Definition: Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
– Dow"di*ly, adv.
– Dow"di*ness, n.
Dow"dy, n.; pl. Dowdies (.
Definition: An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. Shak. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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