Adjective dowdy has 2 senses
  1. dowdy - lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy gray outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
    Antonyms:
    stylish, fashionable (indirect, via styleless)
  2. dowdy, frumpy, frumpish - primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"
    Antonyms: fashionable, stylish (indirect, via unfashionable)
,Noun dowdy has 2 senses
  1. Dowding, Hugh Dowding, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Dowdy - British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
    --1 is a kind of general, full general; marshal, marshall
  2. dowdy, pandowdy - deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
    --2 is a kind of pastry
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