dingy

adjectives

thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
"a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
is derived from
dinge
is derived from
dinginess
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
"dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
dingy, dirty, muddied, muddy
is derived from
dinge
is derived from
dinginess
causing dejection
"a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry