英语词汇“dingy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	dingy
释义	Trends of dingy View usage for: dingy (dɪndʒi) Word forms: comparative dingier, superlative dingiest 1. adjective A dingy building or place is rather dark and depressing, and perhaps dirty. Shaw took me to his rather dingy office. Synonyms: dull, dark, dim, gloomy More Synonyms of dingy 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Dingy clothes, curtains, or furnishings look dirty or dull. ...wallpaper with stripes of dingy yellow. Synonyms: discoloured, soiled, dirty, shabby More Synonyms of dingy dingy in British English 1 (ˈdɪndʒɪ) adjectiveWord forms: -gier or -giest 1. lacking light or brightness; drab 2. dirty; discoloured Derived forms dingily (ˈdingily) adverb dinginess (ˈdinginess) noun Word origin C18: perhaps from an earlier dialect word related to Old English dynge dung dingy in British English 2 (ˈdɪŋɪ) verbWord forms: plural -gies, -gying or -gied (transitive) British slang to ignore (a person) or avoid (an event) dingy in American English (ˈdɪndʒi) adjectiveWord forms: ˈdingier or ˈdingiest 1. dirty-colored; not bright or clean; grimy 2. dismal; shabby Derived forms dingily (ˈdingily) adverb dinginess (ˈdinginess) noun Word origin orig. dial. var. of dungy Examples of 'dingy' in a sentence dingy He helps me to a dingy building. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The dark and dingy space came alive from all the extra light. Times, Sunday Times (2010) His prison is in a dingy room, while the other youngsters share a dormitory. The Sun (2006) It's in a dingy club and there are punters doing dodgy dancing in bad suits. The Sun (2011) The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Two musicians share a dingy, leaky basement flat. Times, Sunday Times (2009) For most people, jazz means some guy playing swing music in a little dingy club. Times, Sunday Times (2010) You want your house to look light and bright, not dark and dingy. The Sun (2014) My room was in the basement, but neither dark nor dingy. Times, Sunday Times (2010) There was a time when dark, dingy offices with secretaries guarding the doors came with a job in the property business. Times, Sunday Times (2007) You can pay 130 for a dingy room with a view of an air-conditioning shaft. Times, Sunday Times (2007) There are exposed ducts and dingy, rather than atmospheric, lighting. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The room is dingy, the floor dirty, mashed by a thousand human feet. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The dancefloor of the dingy North London club is full. Times, Sunday Times (2007) And for those who live in a dingy basement, good news: it positively relishes the shade. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There is a nervous hush in the dingy dealing rooms of Shanghai's retail stockbrokers as share prices on the display boards turn red. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Security officers sit in a dingy room in front of banks of monitors scrutinising X-ray after X-ray of baggage bound for the aircraft hold. Times, Sunday Times (2011) In other languages dingy British English: dingy ADJECTIVE A dingy building or place is dark and depressing, and perhaps dirty. He took me to his dingy office. American English: dingy Brazilian Portuguese: sujo Chinese: > 阴暗肮脏的建筑物或处所 European Spanish: sombrío French: minable German: schäbig Italian: squallido Japanese: みすぼらしい Korean: 음침한 European Portuguese: sujo Latin American Spanish: sombrío Chinese translation of 'dingy' dingy (ˈdɪndʒɪ) adj [street, room] 阴(陰)暗的 (yīn'àn de) [clothes, curtains etc] 邋遢的 (lātā de) 1 (adjective) in the sense of dull Definition dull, neglected, and drab He took me to his rather dingy office. Synonyms dull The stamp was a dull blue colour. dark It was a dark and stormy night. dim She stood waiting in the dim light. gloomy Inside it's gloomy after all that sunshine. murky Their plane crashed in murky weather. dreary They live such dreary lives. sombre a worried official in sombre black drab his drab little office colourless He is a drab, colourless little man. dusky He was walking down the road one dusky evening. bedimmed 2 (adjective) in the sense of discoloured Definition shabby and discoloured wallpaper with dingy yellow stripes Synonyms discoloured Some of the prints were badly discoloured around the edges. soiled dirty The woman had matted hair and dirty fingernails. shabby It was hard to know why the man deserved such shabby treatment. faded a girl in a faded dress seedy a seedy hotel grimy a grimy industrial city Additional synonyms in the sense of colourless Definition dull and uninteresting He is a drab, colourless little man. Synonyms uninteresting, dull, tame, dreary, drab, lacklustre, vacuous, insipid, vapid, characterless, unmemorable in the sense of dark Definition having little or no light It was a dark and stormy night. Synonyms dim, murky, shady, shadowy, grey, cloudy, dingy, overcast, dusky, unlit, pitch-black, indistinct, poorly lit, sunless, tenebrous, darksome (literary), pitchy, unilluminated in the sense of dim Definition lacking in brightness or lustre She stood waiting in the dim light. Synonyms dull, weak, pale, muted, subdued, feeble, murky, opaque, dingy, subfusc Nearby words of dingy dine on or off something diner dingle dingy dinkum dinky dinner Synonyms of 'dingy' dingy Explore 'dingy' in the dictionary
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