Usually means: Less fashionable, frumpy, or plain.
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  1. dowdier: Merriam-Webster
  2. dowdier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dowdier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dowdier: Vocabulary.com
  5. dowdier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dowdier: Wiktionary
  7. Dowdier, dowdier: Dictionary.com
  8. dowdier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dowdier: FreeDictionary.org
  10. dowdier: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See dowdy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dowdy)

adjective:  Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
adjective:  Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
noun:  A plain or shabby person.
verb:  (cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
▸ Also see dowdy


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