dowdy
adjective /ˈdaʊdi/
/ˈdaʊdi/
(comparative dowdier, superlative dowdiest)
- (of a woman) not attractive or fashionable
- He had a rather dowdy wife and several children.
- (of a thing) boring and not attractive synonym drab
- a dowdy dress
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun): from dowd ‘a person of unfashionable and dull appearance’.