What is another word for dingy?
960 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈɪnd͡ʒɪ], [ dˈɪndʒɪ], [ d_ˈɪ_n_dʒ_ɪ]
If you're looking for synonyms for the word "dingy", there are plenty to choose from! Some common alternatives include "dull", "drab", "dusty", "shabby", "grimy", "grubby", "filthy", "faded", "worn", "tarnished", "smudged", "stained", "discolored", "weathered", and "threadbare". Each of these words paints a slightly different picture, but they all convey a sense of something that is old, outdated, or unclean. Whether you're describing a room, a piece of clothing, or anything else, these synonyms for "dingy" will help you capture the right mood and tone.
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Similar words for dingy:
- black (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dim (adjective)
- dirty (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- gray (adjective)
- scraggly (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- seedy (adjective)
- slovenly (adjective)
- tenebrous (adjective)
- unclean (adjective)
- crazy (adjective)
- derelict (adjective)
- dilapidated (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- dowdy (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- faded (adjective)
- gray/grey (adjective)
- grimy (adjective)
- muddy (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- onyx (adjective)
- pitch-black (adjective)
- ragged (adjective)
- run-down (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- sloppy (adjective)
- smoky (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sooty (adjective)
- squalid (adjective)
- tacky (adjective)
Synonyms for Dingy:
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adj.
• black- Atramentous ,
- Piceous ,
- charcoal ,
- coaler ,
- ebon ,
- ebony ,
- inklike ,
- melanoid ,
- midnight ,
- obsidian ,
- pitch dark ,
- pitch-black ,
- pitch-dark ,
- raven ,
- sable ,
- sloe ,
- starless ,
- stygian ,
- slater ,
- sombrer ,
- spotted .
- aphotic ,
- cimmerian ,
- crepuscular ,
- dun ,
- ill-lighted ,
- lightless ,
- rayless ,
- unlighted ,
- fainter ,
- misty ,
- obfuscous ,
- opaque ,
- shaded ,
- shady .
- matte ,
- toned-down ,
- hazy .
- ashen ,
- battleship-gray ,
- dapple-gray ,
- drab ,
- gloomy ,
- grizzled ,
- gun metal ,
- iron-gray ,
- lead-gray ,
- leaden ,
- mole-gray ,
- mousy ,
- neutral-tint ,
- pearl-gray ,
- pearly ,
- salt-and-pepper ,
- somber ,
- taupe .
- gone to seed ,
- gone seed ,
- more sagging ,
- more wilted ,
- more wilting ,
- most sagging ,
- most wilted ,
- most wilting ,
- over grown ,
- over-grown .
- Amphibological ,
- unexplicit ,
- more amphibological ,
- more unexplicit ,
- most amphibological ,
- most unexplicit ,
- un explicit ,
- un-explicit ,
- un-intelligible .
- crummy ,
- defiled ,
- dirty ,
- disgusting ,
- dusty ,
- festering ,
- fetid ,
- filthy ,
- foul ,
- grubby ,
- grungy ,
- icky ,
- impure ,
- infectious ,
- insalubrious ,
- mucky ,
- obscene ,
- odious ,
- offensive ,
- putrid ,
- scatological ,
- scruffy ,
- septic ,
- slovenly ,
- smutty ,
- sordid ,
- toxic ,
- unclean ,
- unhygenic ,
- unsanitary ,
- untidy .
- apest ,
- bats belfry ,
- bats in belfry ,
- bats the belfry ,
- de ranged ,
- de-ranged ,
- in sane ,
- in saner ,
- in sanest ,
- in-sane ,
- in-saner ,
- mad as hatter ,
- mad as march hare ,
- more screwball ,
- more unglued ,
- more unzipped ,
- most flipped ,
- most schizo ,
- most unglued ,
- most unzipped ,
- out lunch ,
- out mind ,
- out of one tree ,
- out of ones mind ,
- out of ones tree ,
- out of tree ,
- out one mind ,
- out one tree ,
- out one's mind ,
- out ones mind ,
- out ones tree ,
- out tree ,
- round bend ,
- un glued ,
- un hinged ,
- un-balanced ,
- un-glued ,
- un-hinged ,
- un-zipped .
- de relict ,
- de solate ,
- de-relict ,
- de-solate ,
- dis carded ,
- dis-carded ,
- more castoff ,
- more ownerless ,
- more relinquished ,
- most castoff ,
- most ownerless ,
- most relinquished ,
- neglected ,
- solitary ,
- un couth ,
- un-couth .
- beatup ,
- brokendown ,
- dog eared ,
- dogeared ,
- fallen in ,
- fallenin ,
- in bad way ,
- more battered ,
- more beat up ,
- more beat-up ,
- more beatup ,
- more dog eared ,
- more dog-eared ,
- more dogeared ,
- more fallen in ,
- more fallen-in ,
- more fallenin ,
- more marred ,
- more rinky dink ,
- more rinky-dink ,
- more rinkydink ,
- more tumble down ,
- more tumble-down ,
- more used up ,
- more used-up ,
- more usedup ,
- most battered ,
- most beat up ,
- most beat-up ,
- most beatup ,
- most dog eared ,
- most dog-eared ,
- most dogeared ,
- most fallen in ,
- most fallen-in ,
- most fallenin ,
- most marred ,
- most rinky dink ,
- most rinky-dink ,
- most rinkydink ,
- most tumble down ,
- most tumble-down ,
- most used up ,
- most used-up ,
- most usedup ,
- most worn out ,
- rickety ,
- rinky dink ,
- rinky-dink ,
- shaky ,
- slummiest ,
- tumble down ,
- tumble-down ,
- un improved ,
- un kempt ,
- un kempter ,
- un kemptest ,
- un-improved ,
- un-kempt ,
- un-kempter ,
- un-kemptest ,
- usedup .
- de pressed ,
- de pressing ,
- de-pressed ,
- de-pressing ,
- dis agreeable ,
- dis heartening ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- dis-heartening ,
- doleful ,
- funereal ,
- hopeless ,
- in auspicious ,
- in pits ,
- in-auspicious ,
- inauspicious ,
- more disheartening ,
- most disheartening ,
- un fortunate ,
- un happier ,
- un happiest ,
- un happy ,
- un-fortunate ,
- un-happy .
- be draggled ,
- be-draggled ,
- blowsier ,
- blowsiest ,
- by gone ,
- by-gone ,
- more out of date ,
- more slatternly ,
- more unstylish ,
- most slatternly ,
- most unstylish ,
- out dated ,
- out-of-date ,
- un fashionable ,
- un seemlier ,
- un seemliest ,
- un seemly ,
- un stylish ,
- un tidier ,
- un tidiest ,
- un tidy ,
- un-fashionable ,
- un-seemlier ,
- un-seemliest ,
- un-seemly ,
- un-stylish ,
- un-tidier ,
- un-tidiest ,
- un-tidy ,
- untidiest ,
- vintage .
- more characterless ,
- more lusterless ,
- more subfuse ,
- more zero ,
- most characterless ,
- most lusterless ,
- most subfuse ,
- most zero ,
- sub fuse ,
- sub-fuse ,
- un changing ,
- un inspired ,
- un-changing ,
- un-inspired .
- dis colored ,
- dis-colored ,
- more discolored ,
- more etiolated ,
- most discolored ,
- most etiolated ,
- not shiny .
- ashest ,
- granite ,
- leadest ,
- more battleship ,
- more cinereal ,
- more dove ,
- more granite ,
- more heather ,
- more oyster ,
- more powder ,
- more silvered ,
- more silvery ,
- most battleship ,
- most cinereal ,
- most dove ,
- most granite ,
- most heather ,
- most oyster ,
- most powder ,
- most silvered ,
- most silvery ,
- stoner ,
- stonest .
- be grimed ,
- be smirched ,
- be-grimed ,
- be-smirched ,
- cruddier ,
- cruddiest ,
- more begrimed ,
- more besmirched ,
- most begrimed ,
- most besmirched .
- be mired ,
- be spattered ,
- be-mired ,
- be-spattered ,
- gunkier ,
- gunkiest ,
- more bemired ,
- more bespattered ,
- more caked ,
- most bemired ,
- most bespattered ,
- most caked ,
- sodden .
- dis organized ,
- dis-organized ,
- down heel ,
- down the heel ,
- full holes ,
- full of holes ,
- in holes ,
- more fragmented ,
- more frayed ,
- more frazzled ,
- more patched ,
- more rent ,
- more shredded ,
- more unpressed ,
- most fragmented ,
- most frayed ,
- most frazzled ,
- most patched ,
- most rent ,
- most shredded ,
- most unpressed ,
- motheaten ,
- scraggier ,
- un even ,
- un finished ,
- un pressed ,
- un-even ,
- un-finished ,
- un-pressed .
- more down at the heel ,
- more down-at-the-heel ,
- more uncared for ,
- more uncared-for ,
- more uncaredfor ,
- more untended ,
- most down at the heel ,
- most down-at-the-heel ,
- most uncared for ,
- most uncared-for ,
- most uncaredfor ,
- most untended ,
- out condition ,
- un healthier ,
- un healthiest ,
- un healthy ,
- un tended ,
- un-healthiest ,
- un-healthy ,
- un-tended ,
- uncared-for ,
- uncaredfor ,
- under weather .
- de generated ,
- de-generated ,
- dis figured ,
- dis reputable ,
- dis-figured ,
- dis-reputable ,
- more degenerated ,
- more deteriorating ,
- more disfigured ,
- most degenerated ,
- most deteriorating ,
- most disfigured ,
- poverty stricken ,
- povertystricken .
- dis creditable ,
- dis graceful ,
- dis honorable ,
- dis-creditable ,
- dis-graceful ,
- dis-honorable ,
- in glorious ,
- in-glorious ,
- junkier ,
- junkiest ,
- junky ,
- more unrespectable ,
- most unrespectable ,
- not snuff ,
- not to snuff ,
- not up snuff ,
- not up to snuff ,
- un respectable ,
- un-respectable .
- fumier ,
- fumiest ,
- more reeking ,
- more smoke colored ,
- more smoke-colored ,
- more smokecolored ,
- more smoldering ,
- most reeking ,
- most smoke colored ,
- most smoke-colored ,
- most smokecolored ,
- most smoldering ,
- re eking ,
- re-eking ,
- smoke colored ,
- smokecolored .
Other synonyms:
- down-at-heel ,
- ratty ,
- seedy ,
- tatty ,
- unwashed .
- broken-down .
- decrepit ,
- dilapidated ,
- shoddy .
- rundown .
- threadbare .
Other relevant words:
- Bemired ,
- Cinereous ,
- Coble ,
- Deteriorated ,
- Droger ,
- Drogher ,
- Exsanguineous ,
- Fuliginous ,
- Galiot ,
- Glaucescent ,
- Griseous ,
- Kedge ,
- Lousily ,
- Mentally Disabled ,
- Muddily ,
- Prame ,
- Randan ,
- Shallop ,
- Silvered ,
- Snuffy ,
- Subfuscous ,
- Tallow-faced ,
- Whey-faced ,
- abject ,
- achromatic ,
- achromic ,
- acier ,
- all the worse for wear ,
- anaemic ,
- anemic ,
- aristocratic ,
- aristocratical ,
- ark ,
- ashy ,
- awfully ,
- back-alley ,
- bacteria ,
- bacterium ,
- bad ,
- badly ,
- barge ,
- base ,
- bedimmed ,
- befouled ,
- begrimed ,
- benighted ,
- besmirched ,
- blah ,
- bland ,
- bleak ,
- bled white ,
- bloodless ,
- blotchy ,
- blue ,
- blue-blooded ,
- blueish ,
- bluish ,
- blurred ,
- boat ,
- boggy ,
- boring ,
- bully ,
- cadaverous ,
- canal boat ,
- canescent ,
- cheerless ,
- chloranemic ,
- cinerous ,
- clouded ,
- cloudy ,
- cockle ,
- cockleshell ,
- cog ,
- color ,
- colorless ,
- colourless ,
- contaminated ,
- contaminating ,
- contemptible ,
- contrite ,
- crazy ,
- crook ,
- cruddy ,
- dapple ,
- dappled ,
- dappled-gray ,
- darkening ,
- darkish ,
- darkling ,
- darkness ,
- dead ,
- dense ,
- deplorable ,
- depressing ,
- depressive ,
- derelict ,
- despicable ,
- dim ,
- dimmed ,
- dinghy ,
- dingily ,
- dinginess ,
- dirt ,
- dirtily ,
- discolored ,
- discoloured ,
- disconsolate ,
- disfigured ,
- dismal ,
- dispiriting ,
- disreputable ,
- distressing ,
- dory ,
- dour ,
- dove-gray ,
- dowdy ,
- down-and-out ,
- draggled ,
- drear ,
- dugout ,
- dusk ,
- dusky ,
- edgeless ,
- etiolated ,
- exsanguine ,
- faint ,
- fallow ,
- feculent ,
- filth ,
- filthily ,
- flat ,
- flatboat ,
- float ,
- flyblown ,
- forbidding ,
- foreboding ,
- foully ,
- frayed ,
- frowzy ,
- frumpy ,
- fungi ,
- funny ,
- gamey ,
- gaudy ,
- gentle ,
- germ ,
- ghastly ,
- gig ,
- give way ,
- glaucous ,
- glooming ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- go down ,
- gone to pot ,
- good-for-naught ,
- good-for-nothing ,
- gray-black ,
- gray-brown ,
- gray-green ,
- gray-white ,
- grayed ,
- grayish ,
- grey ,
- grey-brown ,
- greyish ,
- grim ,
- grime ,
- grisly ,
- grizzle ,
- grizzly ,
- gruesome ,
- haggard ,
- hardly ,
- hueless ,
- hypochromic ,
- ice yacht ,
- iceboat ,
- ignominious ,
- imp ,
- impoverished ,
- inadequately ,
- inexorable ,
- infected ,
- insipid ,
- knave ,
- lackluster ,
- lacklustre ,
- lamentable ,
- launch ,
- life boat ,
- livid ,
- lousy ,
- low ,
- lowering ,
- lurid ,
- lusterless ,
- lustreless ,
- maculate ,
- marked-up ,
- marshy ,
- mat ,
- mealy ,
- mean ,
- meanly ,
- meritless ,
- messily ,
- messy ,
- miry ,
- miserable ,
- moody ,
- moronic ,
- moth-eaten ,
- mouse-colored ,
- muddied ,
- nastily ,
- nasty ,
- naughtily ,
- naughty ,
- neutral ,
- no-count ,
- obscure ,
- olive-drab ,
- onyx ,
- oppressive ,
- outrigger ,
- overcast ,
- pale ,
- pale-faced ,
- pallid ,
- pasty ,
- pearl ,
- pinnace ,
- pitch black ,
- pitchy ,
- pitiful ,
- pitying ,
- pollute ,
- pontoon ,
- poor ,
- poorly ,
- poverty-stricken ,
- prosaic ,
- punt ,
- purulent ,
- pussy ,
- raft ,
- ragged ,
- raggedy ,
- ramshackle ,
- rascal ,
- raunchy ,
- regretful ,
- remorseful ,
- repulsive ,
- risque ,
- roan ,
- rogue ,
- rueful ,
- run-down ,
- ruthful ,
- sad ,
- sallow ,
- saturnine ,
- schlocky ,
- scow ,
- scraggly ,
- scurvy ,
- seamy ,
- seriously ,
- severely ,
- shabbily ,
- shadowy ,
- sick ,
- sickly ,
- silver ,
- silver-gray ,
- sinister ,
- skiff ,
- slate-colored ,
- slaty ,
- sloughy ,
- slow ,
- slummy ,
- smirched ,
- smudgy ,
- sober ,
- soiled ,
- sombre ,
- sooty ,
- sordidly ,
- sorry ,
- squalidly ,
- squashy ,
- stain ,
- steel gray ,
- steely ,
- stern ,
- subdued ,
- subfusc ,
- sulky ,
- sullen ,
- sullied ,
- swampy ,
- swart ,
- swarthy ,
- tacky ,
- tarnished ,
- tedious ,
- tenebrous ,
- thick ,
- tired ,
- tiresome ,
- toneless ,
- tumbledown ,
- two-dimensional ,
- unappeasable ,
- uncheerful ,
- uncleanly ,
- uncolored ,
- unexciting ,
- unfortunate ,
- unimaginative ,
- uninteresting ,
- unkempt ,
- unlit ,
- unpromising ,
- unrelenting ,
- unsporting ,
- unsportsmanlike ,
- untidily ,
- vapid ,
- vile ,
- vilely ,
- wan ,
- washed-out ,
- waterlogged ,
- waxen ,
- weak ,
- wearisome ,
- wherry ,
- white ,
- wickedly ,
- wishy-washy ,
- worn ,
- worse for wear ,
- wretched ,
- wrongly .
- Asher ,
- Caked ,
- Fumy ,
- GUNKY ,
- Nubilous ,
- aper ,
- badly dressed ,
- badly worn ,
- bats in the belfry ,
- beat-up ,
- bespattered ,
- black ,
- blowsy ,
- boggier ,
- boggiest ,
- broken down ,
- castoff ,
- characterless ,
- cinereal ,
- dark ,
- dog-eared ,
- down at heel ,
- down at the heel ,
- down-at-the-heel ,
- dreary ,
- dull ,
- dull as dishwater ,
- fallen-in ,
- gray ,
- heather ,
- in a bad way ,
- in rags ,
- in tatters ,
- in the pits ,
- mad as a hatter ,
- muddy ,
- murky ,
- no nonsense ,
- not clean ,
- nutty as fruitcake ,
- of unsound mind ,
- old fashioned ,
- oldfashioned ,
- out of condition ,
- out of date ,
- out of mind ,
- out of one's tree ,
- out-dated ,
- ownerless ,
- oyster ,
- pitch-dark pitchy ,
- poorly dressed ,
- poorly made ,
- pottier ,
- pottiest ,
- potty ,
- rinkydink ,
- round the bend ,
- schizo ,
- scraggiest ,
- scraggy ,
- screw loose ,
- scuzzy ,
- shabby ,
- silvery ,
- slatternly ,
- sloppy ,
- slummier ,
- smoke-colored ,
- smoky ,
- squalid ,
- subfuse ,
- uncared for ,
- unglued ,
- unpressed ,
- unrespectable ,
- unstylish ,
- untended ,
- unthorough ,
- used up ,
- used-up ,
- washed out ,
- wornout .
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How to use "Dingy" in context?
Dingy is an adjective meaning cheap and shabby. It can describe things like clothes, furniture, or paintings. Dingy often suggests a feeling of dirt and grime.
Homophones for Dingy:
- dominica, damask, dinkey, demeaning, dominus, domingo, data mining, Dayton Axe, danaus, dowding, deadness, dmus, deadening, donnish, dynamic, deinonychus, demagogue, diatomic, ding, danzig, dunk, dunnock, dating, dehumanize, dance, demagog, dying, dawning, dung, Dayton Ax, Den Haag, damages, dae-han-min-gook, dingo, damage, dimash, demonize, demonise, demoniac, dinka, demonic, dimness, dionysus, danish, danseuse, dumas, dong, DMZ, dowdiness, dink, dominoes, dumuzi, dominique, downing, dining, downy chess, demagogic, diminish, dinge, dengue, damascus, dynamize, dyeing, dunce, dominic, deionize, death mask, dinghy, deaminize, damning, dominos, dominance, de-iodinase, dehumanise, Dominicus, dieting, dank, dynamise, doings, demagogy, deimos, dense, denounce, downy ash, dionysia, dionysius, dinky, downiness, diatonic, dimaggio, doting, donkey, dominick, dynamics, demise.
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