Dowdy

Quick meaning: Dowdy is an adjective meaning Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.

Meaning

Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.

More Meanings

1. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
2. A plain or shabby person.
3. (cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.

Example Sentences

The men are all dowdies and the women are all dandies, aren't they?

Miss Marina Thompson, a distant cousin of my husband's. She's rather dowdy, is she not?

[...she was] a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.

“I knew there were women-dowdies in Bengal. They come up here sometimes. But I didn't know that there were men-dowds, too.”

Word Forms

• dowdier
• dowdiest
• dowdies
• dowdying
• dowdied

Synonyms for dowdy

Depending on context, synonyms include frumpy, frumpish, unfashionable, pandowdy, styleless, unstylish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frumpish, frumpy, unfashionable, styleless, unstylish, pandowdy.

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