Dowdy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby: a dowdy gray outfit.
  • adj. Old-fashioned; antiquated.
  • n. A dowdy person; a frump.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
  • adj. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
  • n. An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A slatternly, slovenly, ill-dressed woman; a slattern, especially one who affects finery.
  • Slovenly; ill-dressed; slatternly: applied to women.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
  • adj. primly out of date
  • adj. lacking in smartness or taste
  • n. British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pastry    full general    Marshall    marshal    general   
    Variant
    dowdiest    dowdier   
    Form
    dowdify    dowdily    dowdiness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Goudy    Saudi    cloudy    gowdy    howdy    rowdy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unfashionable    drab    middle-aged    mannish    threadbare    tailor-made    bedraggled    shabby    alpaca    dumpy