1. Primly out of date; unfashionable and dowdy
   "Her dowdy outfit seemed out of place at the trendy nightclub";
   - frumpy, frumpish
    
2. Lacking in smartness or taste
   "a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

1. Deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
   "The rustic apple dowdy was served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream";
   - pandowdy

1. British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defence forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
   - Dowding, Hugh Dowding, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding

Derived forms: dowdiest, dowdies, dowdier

See also: daggy [Austral, NZ, informal], styleless, unfashionable, unstylish

Type of: full general, general, marshal, pastry

Encyclopedia: Dowdy, Bill