Word of the Day:
Dowdy
PRONUNCIATION:
[dou-dee]
MEANING:
adjective 1. not stylish; drab; old-fashioned: Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?
2. A woman who is unfashionably and unattractively dressed. 3. not neat or tidy; shabby.
ETYMOLOGY: 1580s (n.), "an aukward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman" [Johnson]; 1670s (adj.), perhaps a dim. of doue "poorly dressed woman" (early 14c.), of uncertain origin. The modern use of dowd (n.) is most likely a back-formation from dowdy. "If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut" [Barnabe Riche, "Riche his Farewell to Militarie profession," 1581].
USAGE: She could achieve the kind of casual chic that made every other woman around her look dowdy.
SYNONYMS: antiquated, archaic, baggy, bedraggled, blowsy, bygone, dated, dingy, drab, dull, frowzy, frumpy, homely, moldy, old hat, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, passé, plain, run-down, scrubby, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, slovenly, stodgy, tacky, tasteless, unfashionable, unkempt, unseemly, unstylish, untidy, vintage, wrinkled
ANTONYMS: chic, classy, fashionable, modern
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Dowdy
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MEANING:
adjective 1. not stylish; drab; old-fashioned: Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?
2. A woman who is unfashionably and unattractively dressed. 3. not neat or tidy; shabby.
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USAGE: She could achieve the kind of casual chic that made every other woman around her look dowdy.
SYNONYMS: antiquated, archaic, baggy, bedraggled, blowsy, bygone, dated, dingy, drab, dull, frowzy, frumpy, homely, moldy, old hat, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, passé, plain, run-down, scrubby, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, slovenly, stodgy, tacky, tasteless, unfashionable, unkempt, unseemly, unstylish, untidy, vintage, wrinkled
ANTONYMS: chic, classy, fashionable, modern
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