dingy

dingy is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Dinghy. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Alt. of Dinghy
2. superlative. Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
3. adjective. causing dejection

   "a blue day"

   "the dark days of the war"

   Synonyms: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

4. adjective. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

   "a miner's begrimed face"

   "dingy linen"

   Synonyms: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy

5. adjective. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear is often used in combination

   "dirty"

   "a dirty (or dingy) white"

   Synonyms: dirty, muddied, muddy

Synonyms

blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy, dirty, muddied, muddy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dingy:

dying

Common word forms

dingier, dingies, dingily, dingiest

Words from these letters

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