dowdy

nouns

deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust

dowdy, pandowdy

lacking in smartness or taste

"a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"

dowdy

is derived from

is similar to

lacking in style or elegance

"a styleless way of dressing"; "expensive but styleless country tweeds"; "wearing unstylish clothes"

primly out of date

"nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

dowdy, frumpish, frumpy

is derived from