adj. & n.
--adj. (dowdier, dowdiest)
1. (of clothes) unattractively dull; unfashionable.
2 (of a person, esp. a woman) dressed in dowdy clothes.
--n. (pl. -ies) a dowdy woman.
Derivatives:
dowdily adv. dowdiness n.
Etymology: ME dowd slut, of unkn. orig.