English-Thai Dictionary

dowdily

ADV อย่าง ล้าสมัย  อย่าง มอซอ  เชย  yang-la-sa-mai

 

dowdiness

N ความล้าสมัย  ความ ไม่ หรูหรา  kwam-la-sa-mai

 

dowdy

ADJ ล้าสมัย  มอซอ  เชย  drab frumpish la-sa-mai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOWDY

n.An awkward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman.

 

DOWDY

a.Awkward.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DOWDY

Dow "dy, a. [Compar. Dowdier; superl. Dowdiest.] Etym: [Scot. dawdie slovenly, daw, da sluggard, drab, Prov. E. dowd flat, dead. ]

 

Defn: Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow "di *ly, adv. -- Dow "di *ness, n.

 

DOWDY

Dow "dy, n.; pl. Dowdies (.

 

Defn: An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman. Shak. Dryden.

 

DOWDYISH

DOWDYISH Dow "dy *ish, a.

 

Defn: Like a dowdy.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dowd

dowd |daʊd | ▶noun a person, typically a woman, of dull, unfashionable appearance. ORIGIN Middle English: of unknown origin. Perhaps reintroduced in the early 19th cent. as a back-formation from dowdy .

 

Dowding, Hugh

Dowding, Hugh |ˈdaʊdɪŋ |, Baron (1882 –1970 ), British Marshal of the RAF; full name Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding. He was Commander-in-Chief of the British air defence forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

 

dowdy

dow dy |ˈdoudē ˈdaʊdi | ▶adjective ( dowdier, dowdiest ) (of a person, typically a woman, or their clothes ) unfashionable and without style in appearance: she could achieve the kind of casual chic that made every other woman around her look dowdy. ▶noun ( pl. dowdies ) a woman who is unfashionably and unattractively dressed. DERIVATIVES dow di ly |ˈdoudəlē |adverb, dow di ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from dowd ‘person of unfashionable appearance ’ (of unknown origin ) + -y 1 .

 

Oxford Dictionary

dowd

dowd |daʊd | ▶noun a person, typically a woman, of dull, unfashionable appearance. ORIGIN Middle English: of unknown origin. Perhaps reintroduced in the early 19th cent. as a back-formation from dowdy .

 

Dowding, Hugh

Dowding, Hugh |ˈdaʊdɪŋ |, Baron (1882 –1970 ), British Marshal of the RAF; full name Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding. He was Commander-in-Chief of the British air defence forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

 

dowdy

dowdy |ˈdaʊdi | ▶adjective ( dowdier, dowdiest ) (of a person, typically a woman, or their clothes ) unfashionable and unstylish in appearance: she could achieve the kind of casual chic which made every other woman around her look dowdy. DERIVATIVES dowdily adverb, dowdiness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a noun ): from dowd .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dowdy

dowdy adjective dowdy frocks and an unappealing hairstyle: unfashionable, frumpy, old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date, inelegant, shabby, frowzy. ANTONYMS fashionable.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dowdy

dowdy adjective she had serviceable but dowdy clothes: unfashionable, frumpish, frumpy, drab, dull, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, not smart, inelegant, badly dressed, ill-dressed, shabby, scruffy, faded, untidy, dingy, frowzy; informal sad, tacky; Brit. informal mumsy; Austral. /NZ informal daggy. ANTONYMS fashionable.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dowdy

dow dy /dáʊdi /形容詞 ｟否定的に ｠(人や服装が )センスのない, やぼったい, ださい .d ó w di ly 副詞 d ó w di ness 名詞