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# dingy

«dingy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Dark, dull and dirty-looking; not bright or clean: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dingy, dingier, dingiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dark, dull and dirty-looking; not bright or clean: a dingy room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#m1)

2) Of colours: faded and dull, not fresh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories to set a gloomy scene: a dingy attic, a dingy cellar, a dingy street. It tells the reader a place is shabby and unpleasant. Toad's prison cell is dark and dingy.

### examples

- The dingy room had one small window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x1)
- Toad was locked in a dingy dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x2)
- Her white socks had gone dingy and grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x3)
- We painted the dingy kitchen bright yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x4)
- The shop was dingy but full of treasures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x5)
- They walked down a dingy back street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x6)
- The curtains looked dingy and old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x7)
- A dingy light came through the dusty glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x8)
- Instead of dingy velveteen he had brown fur, soft and shiny, his ears twitched by themselves, and his whiskers were so long that they brushed the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/#x9)

### note

Say «DIN-jee» (soft g). Do not confuse with «dinghy» (a small boat), said «DING-ee». Comparative: dingier, dingiest.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dingy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.