dowdily

1. 1.

   in a dowdy unfashionable manner

   “she dresses dowdily”

   Synonymsfrumpilyfrumpishly

Questions about dowdily

What does dowdily mean?

dowdily means "in a dowdy unfashionable manner".

How many syllables are in dowdily?

dowdily has 3 syllables: dow-di-ly. The stress falls on "dow".

What is another word for dowdily?

Close synonyms include frumpily, frumpishly. 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 dowdily a common word?

dowdily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.