Definition of Frowsy

1. Adjective. Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt. "Slovenly appearance"

Exact synonyms: Frowzy, Slovenly
Similar to: Untidy
Derivative terms: Sloven, Slovenliness, Slovenliness

Definition of Frowsy

1. Adjective. Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frowsy

1. frowzy [adj -SIER, -SIEST] - See also: frowzy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowsy

frowns
frowny
frows
frowsier
frowsiest
frowsily
frowst
frowsted
frowster
frowsters
frowstier
frowstiest
frowsting
frowsts
frowsty
frowsy (current term)
frowy
frowzier
frowziest
frowzily
frowziness
frowzled
frowzy
froyo
froyos
froze
frozen
frozen(p)
frozen-in flow law
frozen cow juice

Literary usage of Frowsy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris (1912)
"But I was not to be enticed into an empty discussion of terms. "Well, then, say frowsy. Call it a frowsy fire. You know what frowsy ..."

2. A Levantine Log-book by Jerome Alfred Hart (1905)
"As I gazed at this gorgeous person, gold-laced above, frowsy and filthy below, a bulbous umbrella in his right hand, his left holding a gold-hilted sabre, ..."

3. The Contemporary Review Great (1873)
"... Park Lane for that "frowsy" abode of royalty, "if it were not for our lovely—what is her name ?—Queen of Lilies." He rolls off thither with this parting ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"a horror of the mother that bore him, in whose frowsy embraces he lay suffocating,—horror of himself because he could not feel toward her ¡is a son should ..."

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