dowdy
adjective/ˈdaʊdi/
/ˈdaʊdi/
(comparative dowdier, superlative dowdiest)
- boring and not attractive or fashionable
- I feel dull and dowdy in this outfit.
- a dowdy skirt
- They lived in a dowdy suburb.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun): from dowd ‘a person of unfashionable and dull appearance’.Definitions on the go
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