dowdy
adjective
[ ˈdaʊdi ]
• (of a person or their clothes) unfashionable and unstylish in appearance (typically used of a woman).
• "she could achieve the kind of casual chic which made every other woman around her look dowdy"
Similar:
unfashionable,
frumpish,
frumpy,
drab,
dull,
old-fashioned,
outmoded,
out of style,
not smart,
inelegant,
badly dressed,
ill-dressed,
shabby,
scruffy,
faded,
untidy,
dingy,
frowzy,
sad,
tacky,
mumsy,
antwacky,
daggy,
Origin:
late 16th century (as a noun): from dowd.
