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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Dark, dull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: drab, gloomy, dreary, dismal, bland, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, faint, lackluster, leaden, muddy, sad, sober, uncolorful, unholiday, wan
Antonyms: bright
adj
Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: grimy, dirty
Antonyms: pristine
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative form of dinghy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Alternative form of dinghy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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adjective satellite
causing dejection
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dirty, muddied, muddy
Antonyms: none provided
History
From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from Middle English *dingy, dungy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y, hence a doublet of dungy.
Etymology tree English ding Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dingy From ding + -y.
