Antonyms for dingy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : din-jee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪn dʒi |
Definition of dingy
Origin :- 1736, Kentish dialect, "dirty," of uncertain origin, but perhaps related to dung. The noun dinge (1816) is a back-formation.
- adj soiled, tacky
- He drew his son into a little, low-browed, dingy room at the end of the hall.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- All the ugly, dingy little urchins that I know have been invited.
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
- He turned the knob and entered, advancing to the middle of the dingy room.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Old Dismukes was with them; burly, bushy, dingy, on a huge roan charger.
- Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
- All of the dingy street was ugly, but the greater part of it appeared to be honest.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- The few ornaments were new, and not at all dusty or dingy or tawdry.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- None of them are muddy, or metallic, or dingy, as are too many blues and lavenders.
- Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various
- The stove, with its perspective all awry, was tame and precise, and in colour as dingy as mire.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- The writing was cramped and blotted and the paper cheap and dingy.
- Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- And the dingy, in that position, was not safe to face a blow.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Synonyms for dingy
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