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Meaning of 'dowdy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dowdy [ n.]
- An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
2 . Dowdy [ superl.]
- Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

Meaning of 'dowdy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . dowdy [ s]
Meaning (1):
- lacking in smartness or taste
Example in sentence:
  • a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room;
  • a dowdy grey outfit
Meaning (2):
- primly out of date
Example in sentence:
  • nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game

Nearby Words:

dow dowable dowager dowagerism dowcet dowdies dowdyish dowel doweled doweling

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