Dowdy – (Of a person or their clothes) unfashionable and unstylish in appearance

To remember the definition of the word dowdy, use the following mnemonic:

She took her downtown to shop for some decent (dowdy) clothes, as her current appearance was unfashionable.

Examples of dowdy in a sentence

Her friends thought he was dowdy.

The dowdy man was acting as odd as he dressed.

His mother thought his girlfriends clothes were dowdy.