dingy
[din-jee]
adjective, din·gi·er, din·gi·est.
of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
shabby; dismal.
RELATED WORDS
insipidness, dreariness, blandness, flatness, stodginess, vapidity, dryness, insipidity, gloominess, boringness
Origin of dingy
First recorded in 1730–40; origin uncertain
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Examples from the Web for dinginess
Historical Examples of dinginess
Every sail that loomed in the dinginess filled me with alarm.
The Frozen PirateW. Clark Russell
Kincaid's Battery 'doesn't want to parade its dinginess till it's done something'--pure vanity!
Kincaid's BatteryGeorge W. Cable
As for the furnishings, Georgiana looked about her with an appraising eye which took in all their dinginess.
Under the Country SkyGrace S. Richmond
There was the same colour of paint on the walls, which had been so managed as to represent the dinginess of antiquity.
Rivers of IceR.M. Ballantyne
The rosette is typical of a curious character that the room has for all its dinginess.
WomanMagdeleine Marx
dingy
adjective -gier or -giest
Word Origin for dingy
C18: perhaps from an earlier dialect word related to Old English dynge dung
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