Dowdy

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  • adjective. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
  • adjective. Old-fashioned; antiquated.
  • noun. A dowdy person; a frump.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A slatternly, slovenly, ill-dressed woman; a slattern, especially one who affects finery.
  • Slovenly; ill-dressed; slatternly: applied to women.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
  • noun. An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
  • adjective. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
  • adjective. primly out of date
  • adjective. lacking in smartness or taste
  • noun. British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
    • Word Usage
    "Her Aunt Mimi isn't beautiful, at least on the outside: she buries her features beneath thick powder, marches around in dowdy clothes and looks old beyond her years."
    Equivalent
    styleless  unfashionable  unstylish  
    Form
    dowdify  dowdily  dowdiness  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Marshall  full general  general  marshal  pastry  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Goudy  Saudi  cloudy  gowdy  howdy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alpaca  bedraggled  drab  dumpy  frumpy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    archaic  blowsy  bygone  dated  demode  
    variant
    dowdier  dowdiest  
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