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say it: DIN-jee
dingy is an adjective meaning "thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot". It carries 3 recorded senses.
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
“dirty”
“a dirty (or dingy) white”
“the muddied grey of the sea”
“muddy colors”
“dirty-green walls”
“dirty-blonde hair”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dingy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.