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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |