Dinginess
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdɪndʒɪnəs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dinginess is a noun meaning The state or quality of being dingy.
Meaning
The state or quality of being dingy.
Example Sentences
He was a pitiful image of shabby gentility and the dinginess of “reduced circumstances.”
The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess.
The cramped dinginess of such important stations as Grantham and Peterborough has to be experienced to be believed.
His nether garments were of a blueish gray—violent in its colours once, but sobered now by age and dinginess—and were so stretched and strained in a tough conflict between his braces and his straps, that they appeared every moment in danger of flying asunder at the knees.
Word Forms
- dinginesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dirtiness, dishiness, downiness, dotiness, drossiness, dismality.
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