dowdy adj

1 lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy gray outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

2 primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game" [syn: frumpy, frumpish]

1 British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970) [syn: Dowding, Hugh Dowding, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding]

2 deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust [syn: pandowdy] [also: dowdiest, dowdier]dowdier See dowdy

English

Adjective

dowdier

1. comparative of dowdy