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

1adj 2adj

If something is dingy, it's dirty. If you spend your days as a chimney sweeper, you probably look pretty dingy.

The adjective dingy is often, but not always, used to describe one's clothing or living space. The adjective dingy comes from uncertain origins, but experts suspect it may be a backformation from the word dung, which is animal excrement. So you can imagine how dirty, dismal, grungy, and grimy something described as dingy is.

WORD FAMILY

dingy: dingier, dingiest, dingily, dinginess+/dinge: dinged, dinges, dinging, dingy

USAGE EXAMPLES

This was the attitude she carried, at the age of 28, into what sounded like a dingy sci-fi movie called Alien, shooting in England.

The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016)

The entrance door is daubed with graffiti, the ground floor hallway dingy and depressing.

The Guardian(Dec 05, 2016)

It started when I was working as a union organizer in a little town in upstate New York, living out of a dingy motel room.

New York Times(Nov 23, 2016)

1adj thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

dingy linen

Syn

begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
dirty, soiled, unclean

soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime

2adj (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear

a dirty (or dingy) white

Syn

dirty, muddied, muddy
impure

combined with extraneous elements

adj gloomy or causing dejection

Syn

blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
cheerless, depressing, uncheerful

causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

单词	dingy
释义	dingy (once / 1075 pages) 1adj 2adj If something is dingy, it's dirty. If you spend your days as a chimney sweeper, you probably look pretty dingy. The adjective dingy is often, but not always, used to describe one's clothing or living space. The adjective dingy comes from uncertain origins, but experts suspect it may be a backformation from the word dung, which is animal excrement. So you can imagine how dirty, dismal, grungy, and grimy something described as dingy is. WORD FAMILY dingy: dingier, dingiest, dingily, dinginess+/dinge: dinged, dinges, dinging, dingy USAGE EXAMPLES This was the attitude she carried, at the age of 28, into what sounded like a dingy sci-fi movie called Alien, shooting in England. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) The entrance door is daubed with graffiti, the ground floor hallway dingy and depressing. The Guardian(Dec 05, 2016) It started when I was working as a union organizer in a little town in upstate New York, living out of a dingy motel room. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1 1adj thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot dingy linen Syn begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy dirty, soiled, unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime 2adj (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear a dirty (or dingy) white Syn dirty, muddied, muddy impure combined with extraneous elements 2 adj gloomy or causing dejection Syn blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
随便看	out of bounds out-of-bounds out-of-court settlement out-of-date out-of-door out-of-doors out of doors out of gear out of hand out of nothing out of place out of play out-of-pocket out of practice out of print out of reach out-of-school out of sight out of stock out of the blue out-of-the-box thinking out of the question out of the way out-of-the-way out of thin air