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English Dictionary: dingy by the DICT Development Group
3 results for dingy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dingy
adj
  1. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
    Synonym(s): begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
  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"
    Synonym(s): dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
  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"
    Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dingy \Din"gy\, a. [Compar. {Dingier}; superl. {Dingiest}.]
      [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. {Dungy}.]
      Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
      [bd]Scraps of dingy paper.[b8] --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dingey \Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee
      dingi.]
      1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also
            {dinghey}.] --Malcom.
  
      2. A ship's smallest boat.
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