dingy

Adjective

• causing dejection
  • a blue day
    
  • the dark days of the war
    
  • a week of rainy depressing weather
    
  • a disconsolate winter landscape
    
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
    
  • a dark gloomy day
    
  • grim rainy weather
    

• (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
  • dirty is often used in combination
    
  • a dirty (or dingy) white
    
  • the muddied grey of the sea
    
  • muddy colors
    
  • dirty-green walls
    
  • dirty-blonde hair
    

• thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  • a miner's begrimed face
    
  • dingy linen
    
  • grimy hands
    
  • grubby little fingers
    
  • a grungy kitchen
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dirty , muddied , muddy , begrimed , grimy , grubby , grungy , raunchy