dingier
dingier is the comparative form of dingy.
Meaning of dingy
Adjective (1)
dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)
- Dark, dull.
- The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713
- Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
- He led her through dingy wareroom after wareroom, counting-house after counting-house, where the clerks all were silent and subdued. He led her at last into a dingy sanctum, dimly lighted by one shaded lamp. In this safe there were piles of dingy papers and more dingy ledgers; […]1853 Christmas, [George Augustus Sala], “Over the Way’s Story”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. Being the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words. […]...
- Antonyms:
- pristine
Adjective (2)
dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound).
- I love it when they hit. You know the sound when they hit? That dingy sound, it’s like faster, and contained somehow? That’s a great sound. Happens like a fraction of a second before you know what you’ve hit, before you figure it out.1997, Frederick Barthelme, chapter 6, in Bob the Gambler, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 63
Questions about dingier
- What is dingier the comparative form of?
- Dingier is the comparative form of dingy.
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