Synonyms of the word

dingy

• adj. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid.
• n. Alternative form of dinghy.

begrimed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of begrime.

blue

• adj. Of the colour blue.
• adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
• adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
• adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented…
• adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant…
• adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
• adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
• adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
• adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
• adj. (comedy) Risque or obscene.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the…
• n. A blue dye or pigment.
• n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
• n. Blue clothing.
• n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
• n. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
• n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
• n. The ocean; deep waters.
• n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
• n. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
• n. A bluefish.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
• n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
• n. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
• n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (ergative) To make or become blue.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes…
• v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
• v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
• adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

cheerless

• adj. devoid of cheer; gloomy.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

depressing

• adj. Causing depression or sadness.
• adj. Causing a reduction in economic activity.
• v. present participle of depress.

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

disconsolate

• adj. Cheerless, dreary.
• adj. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
• n. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

dismal

• adj. Disappointingly inadequate.
• adj. Gloomy and bleak.
• adj. Depressing.

dispiriting

• adj. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
• v. present participle of dispirit.

drab

• adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
• n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
• n. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
• n. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• n. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
• n. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
• n. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• v. (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.

drear

• adj. (poetic) Dreary.
• n. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.

dreary

• adj. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
• adj. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

gloomy

• adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
• adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

grimy

• adj. Stained or covered with grime.
• adj. (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.

grubby

• adj. Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
• adj. Having grubs in it.
• n. (US, dialect) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.

grungy

• adj. Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
• adj. Of or relating to grunge music.

impure

• adj. Not pure.
• adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy or unhallowed.
• adj. Unchaste or obscene.
• adj. (Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute.

muddied

• adj. Made dirty with mud.
• adj. Made unclear, obfuscated (generally as part of the phrase muddied the water).
• adj. Made muted of color.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of muddy.

muddy

• adj. Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
• adj. With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
• adj. Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
• adj. Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
• adj. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
• v. (transitive) To get mud on (something).
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.

raunchy

• adj. Very low class; inferior; inadequate.
• adj. With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.
• adj. Having socially unacceptable sexual behavior.
• adj. Sexually seductive.

soiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of soil.
• adj. dirty.

sorry

• adj. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
• adj. Poor, sad or regrettable.
• interj. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
• interj. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
• interj. Used to correct oneself in speech.
• n. The act of saying sorry; an apology.

uncheerful

• adj. Not cheerful.

unclean

• adj. Dirty, soiled or foul.
• adj. Not moral or chaste.
• adj. Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.