dingy

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adjective

1. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot (Freq. 4)
- a miner's begrimed face
- dingy linen
- grimy hands
- grubby little fingers
- a grungy kitchen
• Syn:
begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
• Similar to:
dirty, soiled, unclean
• Derivationally related forms:
grunge (for: grungy), grubbiness (for: grubby), grime (for: grimy), griminess (for: grimy), dinge, dinginess
2. (of color) discolored by impurities;
not bright and clear
- "dirty" is often used in combination
- a dirty (or dingy) white
- the muddied grey of the sea
- muddy colors
- dirty-green walls
- dirty-blonde hair
• Syn:
dirty, muddied, muddy
• Similar to:
impure
• Derivationally related forms:
muddiness (for: muddy), dinge, dinginess
3. causing dejection
- a blue day
- the dark days of the war
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- a dark gloomy day
- grim rainy weather
• Syn:
blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy,
grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dirty, muddied, muddy, begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy