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dowdier

dowdier is the comparative form of dowdy.

Meaning of dowdy

Adjective

dowdy (comparative dowdier, superlative dowdiest)

  1. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
  2. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
    • [...she was] a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC

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Questions about dowdier

What is dowdier the comparative form of?
Dowdier is the comparative form of dowdy.

Words near dowdier in the dictionary

  1. Dowdens
  2. Dowdeswell
  3. Dowdeswells
  4. dowdied
  5. dowdied up
  6. dowdier
  7. dowdies
  8. dowdies up
  9. dowdiest
  10. dowdification
  11. dowdified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dowdier (page history and authors); dowdy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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