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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, anemic, ashen, ashy, besmirched, bled white, bloodless, blotchy, broken-down, cadaverous, canescent, cheerless, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dilapidated, dim, dimmed, dirty, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, down-at-heel, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, dusty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, fuliginous, ghastly, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grubby, grungy, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, messy, miry, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, murky, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, run-down, sad, sallow, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shadowy, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoke-gray, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, soiled, somber, sooty, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sullied, tacky, tallow-faced, tarnished, taupe, tenebrous, threadbare, tired, toneless, uncolored, untidy, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

Dictionary Results for dingy:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dingy
    adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
           begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
           little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed,
           dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
    2: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;
       "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy)
       white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors";
       "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty,
       dingy, muddied, muddy]
    3: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
       "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
       landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
       "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
       dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
       sorry, drab, drear, dreary]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dingy \Din"gy\ (d[i^]n"j[y^]), a. [Compar. Dingier; superl.
   Dingiest.] [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.]
   Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
   "Scraps of dingy paper." --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dingey \Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee
   dingi.]
   1. a small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East
      Indies, in sheltered waters. [Written also dinghey.]
      --Malcom.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. a small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat,
      carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars,
      sail, or a motor.
      [PJC]

   3. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats
      and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.

   Syn: dory, rowboat.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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