dingy
Plural: dingies
Adjective Satellite
- thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- "dingy linen"
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; is often used in combination
- "a dirty (or dingy) white"
- causing dejection
Adj
- dark, dull
- shabby, squalid, uncared-for
Noun
- A small boat; an alternative spelling of dinghy.
- Alternative form of dinghy.
Verb
- Alternative form of dinghy.
Adjective
- Gloomy and drab; often soiled or dirty.
Examples
- After three hours, the unplayed tiles looked DINGY and forgotten on the rack.
- His Scrabble strategy, though small, was a sturdy DINGY against the rising tide of points.
Origin / Etymology
From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from Middle English *dingy, dungy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y, hence a doublet of dungy.
Synonyms
begrimed, blue, dark, dirty, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, grimy, grubby, grungy, muddied, muddy, raunchy, sorry, bland, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, faint, lackluster, leaden, sad, sober, uncolorful, unholiday, wan
Scrabble Score: 10
dingy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddingy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dingy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary