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Shabby vs Grungy - What's the difference?

shabby | grungy |

As adjectives the difference between shabby and grungy

is that shabby is torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged while grungy is dirty; shabby; in disrepair.

shabby

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.
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    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
    They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
  • Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
    • The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
  • Mean; paltry; despicable.
    • shabby treatment

    Derived terms

    * shabby-genteel (Webster 1913)

    grungy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
  • Of or relating to grunge music.

    • References

    * * * " grungy" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)