dingy

Other forms of dingy

comparative or superlative

dingier

comparative or superlative

dingiest

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.

Questions about dingy

What does dingy mean?

dingy means "thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dingy?

dingy has 2 syllables: din-gy. The stress falls on "din". In IPA it is /ˈdɪndʒi/.

What is another word for dingy?

Close synonyms include begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dingy a common word?

dingy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.