Need another word that means the same as “dingy”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “dingy” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dingy” are: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry, begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy, dirty, muddied, muddy, dull, poorly lit, dim
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dingy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| begrimed | Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot. A miner s begrimed face. |
| blue | Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War who wore blue uniforms. Blue language. |
| dark | Used of color having a dark hue. A dark secret. |
| dim | Made dim or less bright. The dim drone of their voices. |
| disconsolate | Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled. She left Fritz looking disconsolate. |
| dismal | Causing a mood of gloom or depression. He shuddered as he watched his team s dismal performance. |
| drab | Lacking brightness or color; dull. Drab camouflage uniforms. |
| drear | Causing dejection. |
| dreary | Causing dejection. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep. |
| dull | Darkened with overcast. Although dull at classical learning at mathematics he was uncommonly quick. |
| gloomy | Filled with melancholy and despondency. A dark gloomy day. |
| grim | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. Grim necessity. |
| grimy | Covered with or characterized by grime. Grimy hands. |
| grubby | Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot. The grubby face of a young boy. |
| grungy | Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot. Grungy guitars and vocals. |
| muddied | Clouded as with sediment. The muddied grey of the sea. |
| muddy | (of liquids) clouded as with sediment. An awful muddy sound that renders his vocals incoherent. |
| poorly lit | Somewhat ill or prone to illness. |
| raunchy | Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness. A raunchy novel. |
| sorry | Filled with compassion for. We feel so ashamed that we keep quiet about the whole sorry business. |
| bleak | Offering little or no hope- J.M.Synge. Prospects were bleak. |
| cheerless | Gloomy; depressing. Something cheerless about the room. |
| contemplative | A person devoted to the contemplative life. She regarded me with a contemplative eye. |
| depressed | (of a place or economic activity) suffering the damaging effects of a lack of demand or employment. The market is depressed. |
| disconsolate | Causing dejection. She left Fritz looking disconsolate. |
| dismal | Causing a mood of gloom or depression. The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening. |
| drab | Clothes especially trousers made of drab. The landscape was drab and grey. |
| dreary | Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. A series of dreary dinner parties. |
| filthy | (of weather) very unpleasant. He has become filthy rich. |
| foul | Hit a foul ball. Murder most foul. |
| gloomy | Filled with melancholy and despondency. A dark gloomy day. |
| grim | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. The grim news of the murder. |
| grimy | Covered with or characterized by grime. The grimy industrial city. |
| horrible | Provoking horror- Winston Churchill. War is beyond all words horrible. |
| languorous | Characterized by an oppressive stillness. The languorous pace of the film. |
| lousy | Teeming with (something regarded as undesirable. The town is lousy with tourists. |
| maculate | Spot, stain, or pollute. A dirty white T shirt maculated with barbecue sauce. |
| melancholy | Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. The melancholy tone of her writing. |
| nasty | Damaging or harmful. Dad s had a nasty accident. |
| pensive | Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood. |
| pessimistic | Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen. He was pessimistic about the prospects. |
| ragged | (especially of a right margin) uneven because the lines are unjustified. He looked a little ragged a little shadowy beneath the eyes. |
| scabrous | Indecent; salacious. A scabrous hovel. |
| seamy | Sordid and disreputable. The seamy side of life. |
| somber | Lacking brightness or color; dull. A somber mood. |
| squalid | Morally degraded- Seattle Weekly. The squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal. |
| unclean | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. Both religions regard pork as unclean. |
| wistful | Showing pensive sadness. The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty. |
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