dinginess
UK/ˈdɪndʒɪnəs/
dinginess noun: the state or quality of being dingy.
Noun
dinginess (usually uncountable, plural dinginesses)
- The state or quality of being dingy.
- 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.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 34
- He was a pitiful image of shabby gentility and the dinginess of “reduced circumstances.”1871 March–April, Henry James, Jr., “A Passionate Pilgrim”, in A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 31 January 1875, →OCLC, chapter...
dinginess meaning in Tamil
dinginess in Tamil
- கபிலம், புகார்
Examples of dinginess in a sentence
- The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess.1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 31, in The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 437:
- The cramped dinginess of such important stations as Grantham and Peterborough has to be experienced to be believed.1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:
Forms of dinginess
| plural | dinginesses |
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Origin of dinginess
From dingy + -ness.
Questions about dinginess
- What does dinginess mean?
- Dinginess means the state or quality of being dingy.
- What is dinginess in Tamil?
- Dinginess in Tamil is கபிலம், புகார். See Dinginess meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use dinginess in a sentence?
- The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess.
- What part of speech is dinginess?
- Dinginess is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dinginess?
- Dinginess is pronounced /ˈdɪndʒɪnəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dinginess?
- The plural of dinginess is dinginesses.
Words near dinginess in the dictionary
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