Dingy

Definition: Dingy

Dingy

Adjective

1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen".

2. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair".

3. Depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dingy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Dingy \Din"gy\, adjective. [Comparative Dingier; superlative Dingiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Dingy

Ship

Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

Ugliness

Foul; (dirty); dingy; (colorless); gaudy; (color); disfigured; Verb: discolored.

Crosswords: Dingy

Hungarian (dingy).

Wait just a dingy minute (Gidget; writing credit: Barbara Avedon; Ruth Brooks Flippen)

Dingy, don't let this worry you. We're gonna get killed (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World; writing credit: Tania Rose)

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Books

• Dirty Dingy Daryl (reference)

• Dirty Dingy Daryl for President (reference)

  (more book examples)

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M. [i.e. Monsieur] Joly stopped before its one dingy window. Credit: Library of Congress.

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To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale

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Beginning with "dingy": dingy-coloured, dingy-looking.

Albanian

i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, ghastly, light, livid, pale, pallid, paly, peaked, wan), i veshur keq, i pistë (bawdy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), i dyshimtë (dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, left handed, misgiving, moot, precarious, problematic, queer, suspect, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, wildcat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏داكن (blackish, dark, deep, dirty, dusky, leaden, sad, swarthy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), одрипавял (ragged, tattered), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references)

Chinese 

灰溜溜 (Dinginess). (various references)

Czech

ubohý (crappy, deplorable, dismal, down in the mouth, grotty, miserable, paltry, pitiable, poor, sleazy, wretched), omšelý (corny). (various references)

Farsi 

چرک (Dirt, Dirty, Frowzy, Guck, Impure, Lymph, Pus, Puss, Slag, Sordid, Squawk), تیره رنگ (Austere), دودی رنگ . (various references)

French

douteux (disputable), sombre (dim, dirty, dismal), imbécile (dirty). (various references)

German

schäbige (dowdily, seedy, shabby, sordidly, tackily). (various references)

Greek 

σκοτεινόσ (black, dark, dim, dusk, murky, obscure, opaque, recondite, shady, somber, sombre). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכלך ואפל. (various references)

Hungarian

ütött-kopott (battered, dilapidated, rusty, tumble-down), szürke (commonplace, drab, dusty, flat, Gray, grey, mousy, to lead a drab existence), piszkos (crappy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), nyomorúságos (abject, deplorable, miserable, pelting, piteous, pitiable, pokey, poky, poverty-stricken, squalid, tin-pot), megkopott, kopottas (down at the heel, to be out at elbows, to be out at heels), kopott (aged, dilapidated, ragged, rinky-dink, rubbed, rusty, scuffed, seedy, shabby, threadbare, to be out at elbows, to be out at heels, worn, worn out), kis csónak (dingey, dinghy, jolly, jolly boat, jolly-boat, yawl), kétevezős csónak (dingey, dinghy), kétes (dicey, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, louche, obscure, precarious, queer, questionable, shady, unassured), elhanyagolt (down at the heel, forlorn, neglected, raffish, raggedy-ass, raunchy, scruffy, sleazo, sleazy, uncared for, untended), dingy, borús (cloudy, dim, gloomy, louring, lowering, obscure, overcast). (various references)

Indonesian

kusam (bleak), kumal, kotor (dirty, grimy, grubby, mucky, unclean). (various references)

Italian

squallido (bleak, dismal, dreary, seamy, shabby, sleazy, squalid, wretched), sporco (dirty, filthy, foul, grubby, mucky, nasty, scruff, smutty, soiled), scuro (black, bleak, dark, dim, dismal, dreary, dull, overcast, somber, sombre, swarthy), grigio (dun, gray, grey, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, Hoar), fosco (dark, dismal, dull, gloomy, grim, lurid, murky, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen). (various references)

Manx

sallagh (filthy, foul, grubby, impure, nasty, piggish, squalid), mee-yesh, dullyr (black, black as outlook, blear, blear of outline, dim, dimness, dusky, fuzzy, gloom, gloomy, lowering, muzzy, opaque). (various references)

Norwegian

snusket. (various references)

Pig Latin

ingyday.(various references)

Portuguese

desbotado (foxy, lacklustre, rusty, washed-out, washy), sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), pardo (brown, dun, grey), esquálido (squalid), baço (brown, dim, ill humor, ill humour, lacklustre, lustreless, swarthy, tarnished), amorenado (darkish). (various references)

Romanian

murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), şters (colorless, colourless, dim, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, pale, sad, wan, washy, wiped, wiping), întunecos (dark, darkish, dim, gloomy, murkily, murky, obscure, shadowy, twilight). (various references)

Russian 

тусклый (blear, bleary, dim, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prljav (dirty, drossy, feculent, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, scurvy, sordid, squalid, unclean), pohaban (battered, frayed, napless, outworn, shabby, threadbare, worn, worn out), mutan (bleary, dim, feculent, lacklustre, mat, matted, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid). (various references)

Spanish

deslustrado (dull, ground, lacklustre), deslucido (charmless, dull, lacklustre, pale, unmagical), de color oscuro, sucio (crummy, dirty, feculent, filthy, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, soiled, unclean, unfairly, unwashed), sombrío (cheerless, dark, dim, dismal, dull, glum, shadowy, somber, sombre), raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, odd, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird), oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat). (various references)

Swedish

smutsig (crummy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean), grådaskig. (various references)

Thai

มอซอ. (various references)

Turkish

rengi solmuş, pis (augean, black, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), kirli (bedraggled, dirty, draggled, filthy, grimy, grubby, impure, smudgy, soiled, spotted, squalid, unclean, venose, venous). (various references)

Ukrainian

тьмяний (crepuscular, dim, dull, glaucous, glazed, glazy, lacklustre, obscure, opaque, sad, wan, waterish), закопчений (crocky, fuliginous, grimy, smoked, smutty, sooty), запилений. (various references)

Vietnamese 

dơ dáy (mussy, squalid), xỉn (dull, dully, lustreless, mat), xám xịt bẩn thỉu, tối m� u (umber), cáu bẩn (dirty). (various references)

Misspellings

"Dingy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bingy, cingy, Dangu, dangy, Degni, Dengie, denvy, diggy, digi, dignty, digy, dindy, diney, dinga, dinge, dingey, dingh, dingi, dingmy, dinny, dinty, diny, disny, dkny, dongy, Donogh, dringy, Dugny, dumgy, Dungey, dungi, dungry, dunvy, fingy, lingy, pingy, tingy, Vigny. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dying.

-1 letter: ding.

-2 letters: dig, din, gid, gin, yid, yin.

-3 letters: id, in.

+1 letter: dingey, dinghy, drying, dyeing, dyings, dyking.

+2 letters: bodying, defying, denying, dignify, dignity, dingeys, dingily, draying, dyeings, eddying, tidying, undying, yarding, yodling.

+3 letters: bandying, bodingly, buddying, caddying, candying, dairying, dallying, daringly, decaying, decoying, decrying, deifying, delaying, dirtying, divvying, dizzying, dollying, dotingly, dummying, dysgenic, edifying, giddying, grindery, gynecoid, howdying, indignly, muddying, pandying, readying, redrying, redyeing, studying, synergid, syringed, toadying, updrying, waddying, wingedly, yielding, yodeling.