dowdy

Adjective

• primly out of date
  • nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
    

• lacking in smartness or taste
  • a dowdy grey outfit
    
  • a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room
    

Noun

• deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

• British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  frumpy , frumpish , pandowdy , Dowding , Hugh Dowding , Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding , Dowdy