FROWSY (frowsier, frowsiest)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: frowsier    , frowsiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does frowsy mean? 

• FROWSY (adjective)
  The adjective FROWSY has 1 sense:

1. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt

  Familiarity information: FROWSY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROWSY (adjective)

Comparative: frowsier   
Superlative: frowsiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt

Synonyms:

frowsy; frowzy; slovenly

Context example:

slovenly appearance

Similar:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

 Context examples 

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)