dowdy

dowdy is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 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 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.
2. noun. An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman.
3. noun. deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

   Synonyms: pandowdy

4. noun. British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

   Synonyms: dowding

5. adjective. primly out of date

   "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

   Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy

6. adjective. lacking in smartness or taste

   "a dowdy grey outfit"

   "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

Synonyms

pandowdy, dowding, frumpish, frumpy

Common word forms

dowdier, dowdies, dowdily, dowdiest

Words from these letters

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