Words and phrases that have a meaning related to dowdy: (137 results)
Often used in the same context:
frumpy, matronly, dumpy, drab, frowsy, perky, stodgy, homely, stuffy, demure, unstylish, fusty, tatty, prim, mousy, boxy, zaftig, shabby, glamorous, chic, mousey, staid, prissy, blowsy, ditsy, snooty, comely, waifish, slatternly, overdressed, scruffy, mannish, grungy, frilly, charmless, glam, shapeless, overdecorated, ugly duckling, careworn, fashionable, sylphlike, dotty, sassy, sexy, olde worlde, blowzy, frowzy, tacky, broderie anglaise, decrepit, bitchy, twee, downmarket, tarted, unprepossessing, unbeautiful, unattractive, scatty, unpretty, pert, forlorn, pulchritudinous, leggy, ratty, cobwebby, kitschy, saggy, bland, bosomy, humorless, chintzy, unwearable, tomboyish, snobbish, dorky, unhip, cheerless, draughty, shrewish, dour, spinsterish, straitlaced, bovver boots, stylish, characterless, sexless, seedy, disheveled, unsexy, dreary, kittenish, glamourous, peroxide blonde, crabby, unfashionably, mirthless, unloved, snazzy, tinselly, unfeminine, plump, brute, lout, pickle, beggar, brats, bumpkin, drunks, phiz, troll, urchin, beast, brat, bum, chatterbox, cowards, devil, drunk, fellows, dressy, bedraggled, modish, nondescript, classy, presentable, prettiest, fussy
Appears in the definition of:
dowdily, frumpily, frumpishly
More general:
pastry
Synonyms:
Also try:frumpish, out of fashion, pandowdy, styleless, unfashionable
— Nouns for dowdy: woman, clothes, dress, women, wife, appearance, girl, thing, figure, creature, dresses, more...
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