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dowdy 音标拼音: [d'ɑʊdi] a. 寒酸的,懒散的
n. 懒散的女人,邋里邋遢的女人 寒酸的,懒散的懒散的女人,邋里邋遢的女人 dowdy adj 1: lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room" 2: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game" [synonym: {dowdy}, {frumpy}, {frumpish}] n 1: British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970) [synonym: {Dowding}, {Hugh Dowding}, {Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding}, {Dowdy}] 2: deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [synonym: {dowdy}, {pandowdy}] Dowdy \Dow"dy\, a. [Compar. {Dowdier}; superl. {Dowdiest}.] [Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd flat, dead.] Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- {Dow"di*ly}, adv. -- {Dow"di*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] Dowdy \Dow"dy\, n.; pl. {Dowdies}. An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. --Shak. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 52 Moby Thesaurus words for "dowdy":
archaic, blowsy, bygone, dated, demode, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drab, draggletailed, dull, frayed, frazzled, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, messy, old hat, old-fashioned, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, passe, patchy, ragged, raggedy, ratty, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slattern, sloppy, slovenly, slut, sordid, stodgy, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, traipse, unbecoming, unfashionable, unkempt, unseemly, vintage
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