dingy — ozdic

Definitions

adj

1

Dark, dull.

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

2

Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.

He led her through dingy wareroom after wareroom, counting-house after counting-house, where the clerks all were silent and subdued. He led her at last into a dingy sanctum, dimly lighted by one shaded lamp. In this safe there were piles of dingy papers and more dingy ledgers; […]

At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

noun

1

Alternative form of dinghy.

verb

1

Alternative form of dinghy.

Collocations

5

ADJ.

developed, last, low

VERB + DINGY

brighten, hit, led, lines, lives, made, make

DINGY + NOUN

apartment, boston, double-barrel, s, sanctum, stations, wareroom, whites

PREP.

after, in, into, through, with

ADV.

depressingly, dimly, increasingly, then

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — causing dejection

adjective — thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

adjective — (of color) discolored by impurities

dirty
muddied
muddy

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

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02

He led her through dingy wareroom after wareroom, counting-house after counting-house, where the clerks all were silent and subdued. He led her at last into a dingy sanctum, dimly lighted by one shade

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03

At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, se

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04

I love it when they hit. You know the sound when they hit? That dingy sound, it’s like faster, and contained somehow? That’s a great sound. Happens like a fraction of a second before you know what you

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05

I remember we had a small electronic toy that had hot lines and made dingy sounds where you tried to eat all the pellets before the boxes with yellow inside them got you. Father said this was one of t

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06

They was a button on that thar computer what said ‘Enter’. I pushed it ’cause I figgered it must be a doorbell. It didn’t make no dingy sound though.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, dingy is marked as informal, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.