Usually means: Gloomy, shabby, and poorly lit.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dingy: Merriam-Webster
  2. dingy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dingy, dingy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dingy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dingy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dingy, dingy: Wordnik
  7. dingy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dingy: Wiktionary
  9. dingy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dingy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dingy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dingy, dingy: Dictionary.com
  13. dingy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dingy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dingy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dingy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dingy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dingy: Rhymezone
  19. Dingy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dingy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dingy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dingy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dingy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dingy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dingy: Encyclopedia

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  1. dingy: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dingy, dingy, dingy, dingy, dingy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dingy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. dingy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dingier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  dark, dull
adjective:  shabby, squalid, uncared-for
noun:  Alternative form of dinghy [(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.]
verb:  Alternative form of dinghy [(intransitive) To travel by dinghy.]

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