ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Blowsy

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈblaʊzi/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Blowsy is an adjective meaning Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.

Meaning

Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.

More Meanings

  1. Unrefined, countrified.
  2. (chiefly of a woman's hair or dress) Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.

Example Sentences

Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!
[…] with a face made blowsy by the cold and damp.
The hot, blowsy country, remote from danger, had a lonely, forgotten feeling.
[…] a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers.

Word Forms

Synonyms for blowsy

Depending on context, synonyms include sluttish, untidy, slatternly, blowzy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blowzy, untidy, sluttish, slatternly, blousy, blouzy.

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