Dingy \Din"gy\ (d[i^]n"j[y^]), a. [Compar. Dingier; superl.
Dingiest.] [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.]
Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
"Scraps of dingy paper." --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dingey \Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee
dingi.]
1. a small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East
Indies, in sheltered waters. [Written also dinghey.]
--Malcom.
[1913 Webster]
2. a small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat,
carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars,
sail, or a motor.
[PJC]
3. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats
and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
Syn: dory, rowboat.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dingy
adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed,
grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
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" [syn: dirty, muddied,
muddy]
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 [syn: dismal, drab, drear, dreary,
gloomy, sorry]
[also: dingiest, dingier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "dingy":
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, anemic, ashen, ashy,
besmirched, bled white, bloodless, blotchy, broken-down,
cadaverous, canescent, cheerless, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous,
colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead,
deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dilapidated, dim, dimmed,
dirty, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, down-at-heel,
drab, dreary, dull, dusky, dusty, etiolated, exsanguinated,
exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, fuliginous,
ghastly, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gray, gray-black,
gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted,
gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle,
grizzled, grizzly, grubby, grungy, haggard, hueless, hypochromic,
iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless,
mat, mealy, messy, miry, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy,
murky, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty,
pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, run-down, sad, sallow, scruffy, seedy,
shabby, shadowy, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery,
slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoke-gray,
smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, soiled, somber,
sooty, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sullied, tacky,
tallow-faced, tarnished, taupe, tenebrous, threadbare, tired,
toneless, uncolored, untidy, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak,
whey-faced, white
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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