Dorky vs Tacky - What's the difference?
dorky | tacky |
Like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.
* 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
* 1998 , Dana Redfield, Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light ISBN 9781571741073
Of a substance, slightly sticky.
(colloquial) Of low quality.
(colloquial) In poor taste.
gaudy, flashy, showy, garish
dowdy, shabbily dressed
shabby, dowdy (in one's appearance)
As adjectives the difference between dorky and tacky
is that dorky is like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics while tacky is of a substance, slightly sticky.dorky
English
Adjective
(er)- I entitled the piece "Dorky ", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
- Anyway this dorky guy asks Sallyfrass to dance and she kind of likes him...
tacky
English
Adjective
(er)- This paint isn't dry yet - it's still a bit tacky.
- That market stall sells all sorts of tacky ornaments.
- That was a tacky thing to say.