| 单词 | dowdy |
| 释义 | dowdy (once / 13922 pages) 1adj 2n Someone dowdy dresses badly and has a shabby, unstylish appearance. If you can’t remember the last time you went shopping, beware, you may be dowdy. People tend to use the word dowdy mostly to describe women, in particular older women. In addition, it not only means shabbily dressed, but also relates specifically to the idea of style, or rather the lack of it. Applied to clothing, it also means out of date, in an old-fashioned, dull sort of way. Wild 1970s-style love beads may be out of style, but they can never be called dowdy! A sensible gray tweed skirt or the person wearing it? Most likely dowdy! WORD FAMILYdowdy: dowdier, dowdies, dowdiest, dowdily, dowdiness USAGE EXAMPLESCould we try something a little younger, less dowdy? New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) The residents of this miserable burg are narrow-minded, dowdy and dumb. Seattle Times(Sep 29, 2016) It cites terror, but people are also fed up with its dowdy, badly-repaired theme park. Economist(Aug 18, 2016) 1 1adj lacking in smartness or taste a dowdy grey outfit a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room Syn styleless, unstylish lacking in style or elegance 2adj primly out of date 2Syn frumpish, frumpy unfashionable, unstylish not in accord with or not following current fashion n deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust Syn|Hyper pandowdy pastry any of various baked foods made of dough or batter Dowdy (once / 181836 pages) n WORD FAMILY Dowdy: Dowdies USAGE EXAMPLESBreiner got into a vehicle and drove off, but was stopped by Poindexter, who was also responding to the call, Dowdy said. Los Angeles Times(Oct 27, 2016) Dowdy and ran 9 and 23 yards for scores. Washington Times(Sep 10, 2016) But expanding that model to other regions might be difficult, says Andrew Dowdy, a climate scientist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne. Nature(Aug 14, 2016) n British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970) Syn|Exp Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Dowding, Hugh Dowding full general, general a general officer of the highest rank marshal, marshall(in some countries) a military officer of highest rank |
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