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单词 dinginess
释义

dingy

adjective

din·​gy ˈdin-jē How to pronounce dingy (audio)
dingier; dingiest
1
: dirty, unclean
dingy fingernails
2
: shabby, squalid
a dingy hotel room
dingily
ˈdin-jə-lē How to pronounce dingy (audio)
adverb
dinginess
ˈdin-jē-nəs How to pronounce dingy (audio)
noun

Synonyms

  • bedraggled
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • bemired
  • besmirched
  • black
  • blackened
  • cruddy
  • dirty
  • draggled
  • dusty
  • filthy
  • foul
  • grimy
  • grotty [chiefly British]
  • grubby
  • grungy
  • mucky
  • muddy
  • nasty
  • smudged
  • smutty
  • soiled
  • sordid
  • stained
  • sullied
  • unclean
  • uncleanly
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Example Sentences

He's been staying in a dingy motel. the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
Recent Examples on the Web The old Defender was built in a dark, dingy part of Land Rover's Solihull factory to tolerances which could be politely described as highly variable. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2022 The halls are dingy but lined with students’ Inuit sculptures and dreamcatchers. NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020 My aluminum cookware has become dull and dingy looking. Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020 The scene of Stubbs wearing a tacky tourist T-shirt drinking a beer in a dingy apartment looks like very authentic Stubbs to me — this, not pretending to be a security chief patrolling the theme park, seems like Stubbs’ natural habitat. James Hibberd, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020 One set of stairs descends to the central Kim family’s dingy semi-basement apartment in modern-day Seoul, while another ascends to the front door of the ultrawealthy Park family, for whom the cash-strapped Kims work. Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019 Instead Mr Tillerson had to duck into the headquarters of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, a dingy office that shares a building with a shuttered Japanese restaurant in an unremarkable corner of the capital. The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018 At the beginning of the film, a laconic trucker named Gorō, a Robert Mitchum type in a plaid shirt and cowboy hat, stops for a bite at a dingy roadside ramen shop. Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020 Remember that the dingier the water, the slower the approach should be. Andrew Pegman, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

origin unknown

First Known Use

1691, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

dingy

adjective

din·​gy ˈdin-jē How to pronounce dingy (audio)
dingier; dingiest
: rather dark and dirty
a dingy room

dinginess

noun

as in blackness
the state or quality of being dirty she was appalled by the dinginess of the curtains that came with the apartment and took them all down to be cleaned

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • blackness
  • staining
  • dinge
  • dustiness
  • grubbiness
  • sordidness
  • uncleanliness
  • dirtiness
  • griminess
  • soilage
  • foulness
  • uncleanness
  • filthiness
  • messiness
  • nastiness
  • smuttiness
  • squalidness
  • squalor
  • untidiness
  • discoloration
  • sloppiness
  • impurity
  • muddiness
  • insanitation
  • mussiness
  • impureness
  • sootiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • cleanliness
  • spotlessness
  • purity
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