9 Letter Words for Dowdiness
disendows, dowdiness, downsides
8 Letter Words for Dowdiness
disendow, disnosed, disowned, dowiness, downside, swiddens
7 Letter Words for Dowdiness
disowns, dowdies, indowed, noddies, oddness, soddens, soddies, sownded, swidden, windses
6 Letter Words for Dowdiness
deinos, didoes, diodes, disnew, disown, dissed, donsie, dossed, downed, dowsed, dowses, dwined, dwines, edison, endoss, endows, enosis, eosins, essoin, indews, indows, noesis, noised, noises, nosies, nowise, onside, ossein, sdeins, sewins, siddow, sinded, sinews, siwens, snides, snowed, snowie, sodden, sondes, sonsie, sowens, sowins, sownds, sownes, sowsed, swines, swones, widens, winded, winoes, wissed, woddie, wondie
5 Letter Words for Dowdiness
deids, dined, dines, dinos, diode, diose, doesn, donis, dosed, doses, dosis, dowds, dowed, dowie, downs, dowse, dwine, eidos, endow, enows, ensis, eosin, idose, indew, indow, nided, nides, nisse, noddi, noded, nodes, noise, nosed, noses, nowed, oside, owned, owsen, sdein, sends, senso, sewin, sided, sides, siens, sinds, sined, sines, sinew, sison, sneds, snide, snies, snods, snows, sonde, sones, sonse, sosie, sowed, sownd, sowne, sowse, swies, swine, swone, weids, wends, widen, wides, winds, wined, wines, winos, wised, wises, wisse, woden
4 Letter Words for Dowdiness
dedo, deid, deis, deni, dens, desi, dess, dews, didn, dido, died, dies, dine, dino, dins, dods, doen, does, done, doni, dons, dose, doss, dowd, down, dows, dsos, eddo, endo, ends, enow, eons, ideo, ides, inde, iode, ions, isdn, ised, isos, neds, ness, news, nide, nids, nied, nies, node, nodi, nods, noes, nose, nows, odds, odes, odin, ones, oses, osse, owed, owes, owns, owse, seis, send, sens, sewn, sews, side, sids, sien, sind, sine, sins, sion, sise, sned, snew, snod, snow, sods, sond, sone, sons, sown, sows, ssed, weds, weid, wend, wens, wide, wied, wind, wine, wino, wins, wise, wiss, wode, woes, wone, wons
3 Letter Words for Dowdiness
dds, ded, dei, den, des, dew, did, die, din, dis, dod, doe, don, dos, dow, dso, edd, edo, eds, end, ens, eon, eos, esd, ess, ide, ido, ids, ind, ins, ion, ios, ise, isn, iso, iwo, ned, nei, neo, new, nid, nie, nis, nod, nos, now, odd, ode, ods, oes, oie, ois, one, oni, ons, ose, osi, owd, owe, own, ows, sds, sed, sei, sen, sew, sie, sin, sis, sod, son, sow, sse, ssw, wed, wen, wid, win, wis, wod, woe, won, wos
Definitions for Dowdiness
[1] not stylish; drab; old-fashioned: Why do you always wear those dowdy old dresses?
[2] not neat or tidy; shabby.
[3] a dowdy woman.
[4] apple pandowdy.
[5] (esp of a woman's dress) drab, unflattering, and old-fashioned
[6] a dowdy woman
Words related to Dowdiness
dowdyrun-down, shabby, frumpy, dingy, drab, antiquated, unkempt, vintage, bygone, plain, archaic, baggy, bedraggled, dated, dull, frowzy, homely, moldy, out-of-date, outdated
Words nearby Dowdiness
dowdydowable, dowager, dowager's hump, dowden, dowding, dowdy, dowel, doweling, dowell, dower, dower chest
Origin of Dowdiness
y2First recorded in 1935–40; short form
Other words from Dowdiness
dow·di·ly , adverb
dow·di·ness , noun
dow·dy·ish , adjective
dow·dy·ism , noun
Word origin for Dowdiness
yC14: dowd slut, of unknown origin
Synonyms for Dowdiness
obscenity, profanity, coarseness, commonness, crudeness, discourtesy, impudence, indecency, rudeness, unrefinement