dingying

Adjective

dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)

1. 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

   Synonyms:

   drab, gloomy, dreary, dismal, bland, colourless, dim, dull, faint, lackluster

   Antonyms:

   bright

2. 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. […]...

   Synonyms:

   grimy, dirty

   Antonyms:

   pristine

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