GRE Word List
DOWDY
not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby
The meaning of the word dowdy is not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| occident | west |