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grimy
Covered or smudged with grime.
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  1. Covered or smudged with grime.
  2. Covered with or full of grime; very dirty
gloomy
Showing or filled with gloom:
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  1. Showing or filled with gloom:
  2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  3. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
shabby
Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
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  1. Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
  2. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy:
  3. Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out:
bedraggled
Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:
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  1. Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:
  2. Wet, drenched, or messy:
  3. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
broken-down
Not properly maintained; neglected
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  1. Not properly maintained; neglected
  2. Sick or worn out, as by old age or disease
  3. No longer in working order
decrepit
Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
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  1. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
dilapidated
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
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  1. Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
  2. Falling to pieces or into disrepair; broken down; shabby and neglected
down-at-heel
Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
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  1. Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
  2. (Literally of footwear, hyphenated when used attributively) In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby.
  3. Shabbily dressed because of poverty; seedy.
mangy
Affected with, caused by, or resembling mange.
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  1. Affected with, caused by, or resembling mange.
  2. Shabby or squalid:
  3. Shabby and filthy; sordid; squalid
rundown
Dirty and dilapidated:
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  1. Dirty and dilapidated:
  2. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
  3. Unwound and not running:
scrubby
Covered with or consisting of scrub, or brushwood
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  1. Covered with or consisting of scrub, or brushwood
  2. Paltry or shabby:
  3. Paltry, shabby, etc.
scruffy
(Chiefly British) Scaly; scabby.
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  1. (Chiefly British) Scaly; scabby.
  2. Untidy in appearance
  3. Shabby, unkempt, or untidy; grubby
seedy
Having tiny bubbles
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  1. Having tiny bubbles
  2. Worn and shabby; unkempt:
  3. Shabby, run-down, etc.
shabby
Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
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  1. Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
  2. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy:
  3. Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out:
shoddy
Made of any cheap, inferior material
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  1. Made of any cheap, inferior material
  2. Being of poor quality or construction
  3. Rundown; shabby.
sleazy
Flimsy or thin in texture or substance; lacking firmness
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  1. Flimsy or thin in texture or substance; lacking firmness
  2. (Informal) Shoddy, shabby, cheap, vulgar, etc.
  3. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry:
tattered
Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
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  1. Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
  2. Wearing torn and ragged clothes
  3. Shabby or dilapidated.
tatty
Somewhat worn, shabby, or dilapidated.
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  1. Somewhat worn, shabby, or dilapidated.
  2. (Brit.) Shabby, decrepit, or tawdry
threadbare
Worn down so that the threads show; having the nap or surface fibers worn off
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  1. Worn down so that the threads show; having the nap or surface fibers worn off
  2. (Of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
  3. Wearing old, worn clothes; shabby
tacky
Dowdy or shabby, as in dress or appearance
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  1. Dowdy or shabby, as in dress or appearance
  2. Dowdy, shabbily dressed
  3. Lacking style or good taste; tawdry:
ratty
Full of rats
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  1. Full of rats
  2. Of or like a rat
  3. Dilapidated; shabby.
Find another word for dingy. In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for dingy, like: grimy, soiled, gloomy, shabby, dirty, dismal, bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit and dilapidated.

Sentence Examples

  • He wore a flat gray cloth cap, a dingy wool-colored greatcoat, and cowhide boots.

  • In yonder city's dingy alleys the sun shines not, and the air is foul.

  • It was, in short, from their little dingy meeting house.

  • The Indian wolf has a dingy reddish-white fur, some of the hairs being tipped with black.

  • A widespread disease known as pocket-plums or bladderplums is due to an ascomycetous fungus, Exoascus pruni, the mycelium of which lives parasitically in the tissues of the host plant, passes into the ovary of the flower and causes the characteristic malformation of the fruit which becomes a deformed, sometimes curved or flattened, wrinkled dry structure, with a hollow occupying the place of the stone; the bladder plums are yellow at first, subsequently dingy red.

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