What does slummy mean?
Slummy means Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit..
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/ˈslʌmi/ · adjective
Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit..
Cars and unemployment increased. Council houses took on a slummier look.
The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audible call that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without, she has had to make her way alone, through difficulties not commonly encountered, "through slummy, muddy streets"; she has known the dark night of the soul, Dante's "dark wood, midway in the journey of our life," and the sorrows of the pits of hell[.]
Use slummy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Slummy means Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit..
Common synonyms include poor, slum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Cars and unemployment increased. Council houses took on a slummier look.
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