dowdy
adjective /ˈdaʊdi/
  /ˈdaʊdi/
(comparative dowdier, superlative dowdiest)
- (of a woman) not attractive or fashionable- He had a rather dowdy wife and several children.
 
- (of a thing) boring and not attractive synonym drab- a dowdy dress
 
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun): from dowd ‘a person of unfashionable and dull appearance’.