1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
   "dingy linen"
   - begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy [US] 
2. (of colour) discoloured by impurities; not bright and clear
   "a dingy white"
   - dirty, muddied, muddy 
3. Causing dejection
   - blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary

Derived forms: dingiest, dingier

See also: cheerless, depressing, dinge, dirty, impure, soiled, uncheerful, unclean

Encyclopedia: Dingy

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