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What is the adjective for dowd?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb dowdify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dowdy
  1. Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
  2. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits.”
      “She thought of Ian and how she simply must do something about her appearance, else he would always think of her as a dowdy child.”
dowdyish
  1. Like a dowdy; frumpy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Confess, William, do not the mere good looks of Zoraide Reuter appear dowdyish and commonplace compared with the splendid charms of some of her pupils?”
dowdified
  1. Made dowdy.
dowdier
dowdiest
dowdifying
  1. present participle of dowdify
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