dingy

Adjective
  1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot (synset 300422169)
    "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
    similar to: dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
    same as: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
  2. (of color) discolored by impurities;
    Not bright and clear (synset 301915458)
    "dirty"; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
    similar to: impure - combined with extraneous elements
    same as: dirty, muddied, muddy
  3. Causing dejection (synset 300365961)
    "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
    similar to: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
    same as: blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry

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