1 (of a woman) not attractive or fashionable:
He had a rather dowdy wife and several children.
2 (of a thing) dull or boring and not attractive:
a dowdy dress
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dowdy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dowdy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dowdy is tagged as adjective.
Does dowdy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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