Definition of dingy in English:

dingy

adjectivedingiest, dingier ˈdɪn(d)ʒiˈdɪndʒi

Gloomy and drab.
a dingy room
Example sentencesExamples
- The dark and dingy rooms have just one little room up a stairway, which served as a toilet and bath.
- He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud.
- The place is an eyesore, dingy and dark - not the sort of place that seemed safe to park.
- Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends.
- A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes and Pine-O-Clean.
- An older me should have taken a younger me aside years ago and had a stern few words in a dark corner of a dingy bar.
- It was a dingy place with a dirty floor and more dust than goods on the shelves.
- Finding no one, she sighed and seated herself at a small table in a dingy corner of the room.
- It's a dark room, with only a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, dingy walls, dark floor.
- It stood at the top of Newport Street in Old Town, a dingy dark building measuring a modest eight feet square.
- She looked around a dingy and dirty room that contained two stalls, but no other door out.
- The building he envisages for the association is a far cry from the dingy, dark hovel it occupies now.
- I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town and got a room in a dingy motel next to the interstate.
- The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
- Dust was everywhere, the floor was dingy and the once white walls were now a drab gray.
- When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy.
- It was when I first moved back to London, and I was renting a room in a flatshare in a dingy house in Putney.
- Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job.
- Today, through the clever use of windows and glass bricks, the warren-like structure never feels dingy.
- They are in a rather dingy room with a few Argos inspired design touches and in the presence of two young children.
Synonyms
gloomy, drab, dark, dull, badly/poorly lit, dim
dismal, sombre, grim, dreary, cheerless
dirty, discoloured, grimy, soiled
faded, shabby, dowdy, worn, seedy, run down, tacky
literary tenebrous

Derivatives

dingily

adverb

The houses are small, cramped dingily together, with fringes of grass, old-fashioned blooms and rusty chain-link fences dividing the yards.
Example sentencesExamples
- Whether your potential date sees you first in a photograph, across a speed dating table or in a dingily lit bar, you'd better be looking your best if you're out and about.
- I looked down at the dingily drawn American flag.
- There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke.
- This was taken - despite appearances - at a lunch time concert in a rather dingily lit food court.

dinginess

noun ˈdɪn(d)ʒɪnəsˈdɪndʒinəs

While in the daytime it looked just kept enough to be scruffy, the thick cool of the night hid its dinginess and transformed it into something almost beautiful.
Example sentencesExamples
- Under these circumstances both cities are at their most abstractly lovely, with the dinginess and decay invisible and human life represented only by parked cars and electric lights.
- The geeky mayhem is played out in scenes of deepest American dinginess: checked couches, hanging crystals, bad hair dye, dim clutter.
- Mike leans back and chuckles, and everyone joins in, sipping hot, sweet coffee gratefully in the chill of the a/c, in the musty dinginess of the club before opening time.
- There was cat hair everywhere, and there was just a general dinginess.

Origin

Mid 18th century: perhaps based on Old English dynge 'dung'.

grunge from [1960s]:
Before it became associated with rock music, grunge was generally used to mean ‘grime or dirt’. It was formed from grungy, a word that was coined in the 1960s, probably by blending grubby (from the state you get in when you grub (Middle English) or dig) and dingy (a M18th word of unknown origin, but perhaps related to dung). In the 1990s grunge became the term for a style of rock music in which the guitar is played raucously and the lyrics delivered in a lazy vocal style. Among well-known practitioners of grunge were Seattle-based groups such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

Rhymes

fringy, mingy, stingy, whingy

Definition of dingy in US English:

dingy

adjectiveˈdɪndʒiˈdinjē

Gloomy and drab.
a dingy room
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a dark room, with only a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, dingy walls, dark floor.
- She looked around a dingy and dirty room that contained two stalls, but no other door out.
- The place is an eyesore, dingy and dark - not the sort of place that seemed safe to park.
- An older me should have taken a younger me aside years ago and had a stern few words in a dark corner of a dingy bar.
- Finding no one, she sighed and seated herself at a small table in a dingy corner of the room.
- The dark and dingy rooms have just one little room up a stairway, which served as a toilet and bath.
- Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends.
- He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud.
- They are in a rather dingy room with a few Argos inspired design touches and in the presence of two young children.
- It was when I first moved back to London, and I was renting a room in a flatshare in a dingy house in Putney.
- Today, through the clever use of windows and glass bricks, the warren-like structure never feels dingy.
- When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy.
- Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job.
- The building he envisages for the association is a far cry from the dingy, dark hovel it occupies now.
- It was a dingy place with a dirty floor and more dust than goods on the shelves.
- A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes and Pine-O-Clean.
- Dust was everywhere, the floor was dingy and the once white walls were now a drab gray.
- The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
- I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town and got a room in a dingy motel next to the interstate.
- It stood at the top of Newport Street in Old Town, a dingy dark building measuring a modest eight feet square.
Synonyms
gloomy, drab, dark, dull, badly lit, poorly lit, dim

Origin

Mid 18th century: perhaps based on Old English dynge ‘dung’.

单词	dingy
释义	Definition of dingy in English: dingy adjectivedingiest, dingier ˈdɪn(d)ʒiˈdɪndʒi Gloomy and drab. a dingy room Example sentencesExamples The dark and dingy rooms have just one little room up a stairway, which served as a toilet and bath. He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud. The place is an eyesore, dingy and dark - not the sort of place that seemed safe to park. Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends. A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes and Pine-O-Clean. An older me should have taken a younger me aside years ago and had a stern few words in a dark corner of a dingy bar. It was a dingy place with a dirty floor and more dust than goods on the shelves. Finding no one, she sighed and seated herself at a small table in a dingy corner of the room. It's a dark room, with only a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, dingy walls, dark floor. It stood at the top of Newport Street in Old Town, a dingy dark building measuring a modest eight feet square. She looked around a dingy and dirty room that contained two stalls, but no other door out. The building he envisages for the association is a far cry from the dingy, dark hovel it occupies now. I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town and got a room in a dingy motel next to the interstate. The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room. Dust was everywhere, the floor was dingy and the once white walls were now a drab gray. When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy. It was when I first moved back to London, and I was renting a room in a flatshare in a dingy house in Putney. Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job. Today, through the clever use of windows and glass bricks, the warren-like structure never feels dingy. They are in a rather dingy room with a few Argos inspired design touches and in the presence of two young children. Synonyms gloomy, drab, dark, dull, badly/poorly lit, dim dismal, sombre, grim, dreary, cheerless dirty, discoloured, grimy, soiled faded, shabby, dowdy, worn, seedy, run down, tacky literary tenebrous Derivatives dingily adverb The houses are small, cramped dingily together, with fringes of grass, old-fashioned blooms and rusty chain-link fences dividing the yards. Example sentencesExamples Whether your potential date sees you first in a photograph, across a speed dating table or in a dingily lit bar, you'd better be looking your best if you're out and about. I looked down at the dingily drawn American flag. There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. This was taken - despite appearances - at a lunch time concert in a rather dingily lit food court. dinginess noun ˈdɪn(d)ʒɪnəsˈdɪndʒinəs While in the daytime it looked just kept enough to be scruffy, the thick cool of the night hid its dinginess and transformed it into something almost beautiful. Example sentencesExamples Under these circumstances both cities are at their most abstractly lovely, with the dinginess and decay invisible and human life represented only by parked cars and electric lights. The geeky mayhem is played out in scenes of deepest American dinginess: checked couches, hanging crystals, bad hair dye, dim clutter. Mike leans back and chuckles, and everyone joins in, sipping hot, sweet coffee gratefully in the chill of the a/c, in the musty dinginess of the club before opening time. There was cat hair everywhere, and there was just a general dinginess. Origin Mid 18th century: perhaps based on Old English dynge 'dung'. grunge from [1960s]: Before it became associated with rock music, grunge was generally used to mean ‘grime or dirt’. It was formed from grungy, a word that was coined in the 1960s, probably by blending grubby (from the state you get in when you grub (Middle English) or dig) and dingy (a M18th word of unknown origin, but perhaps related to dung). In the 1990s grunge became the term for a style of rock music in which the guitar is played raucously and the lyrics delivered in a lazy vocal style. Among well-known practitioners of grunge were Seattle-based groups such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Rhymes fringy, mingy, stingy, whingy Definition of dingy in US English: dingy adjectiveˈdɪndʒiˈdinjē Gloomy and drab. a dingy room Example sentencesExamples It's a dark room, with only a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, dingy walls, dark floor. She looked around a dingy and dirty room that contained two stalls, but no other door out. The place is an eyesore, dingy and dark - not the sort of place that seemed safe to park. An older me should have taken a younger me aside years ago and had a stern few words in a dark corner of a dingy bar. Finding no one, she sighed and seated herself at a small table in a dingy corner of the room. The dark and dingy rooms have just one little room up a stairway, which served as a toilet and bath. Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends. He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud. They are in a rather dingy room with a few Argos inspired design touches and in the presence of two young children. It was when I first moved back to London, and I was renting a room in a flatshare in a dingy house in Putney. Today, through the clever use of windows and glass bricks, the warren-like structure never feels dingy. When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy. Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job. The building he envisages for the association is a far cry from the dingy, dark hovel it occupies now. It was a dingy place with a dirty floor and more dust than goods on the shelves. A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes and Pine-O-Clean. Dust was everywhere, the floor was dingy and the once white walls were now a drab gray. The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room. I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town and got a room in a dingy motel next to the interstate. It stood at the top of Newport Street in Old Town, a dingy dark building measuring a modest eight feet square. Synonyms gloomy, drab, dark, dull, badly lit, poorly lit, dim Origin Mid 18th century: perhaps based on Old English dynge ‘dung’.
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