dungeonish

English

Etymology

From dungeon +‎ -ish.

Adjective

dungeonish (comparative more dungeonish, superlative most dungeonish)

1. Characteristically like a dungeon
   • 2000, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors, page 50:

     Yeller has given the cellar a more dungeonish smell with cabbage water and by poking old cheese into cracks.

   • 2011, Victoria Pade, The Baby Deal:

     Along the way, she said, “That was the first thing I thought about the house, too—that all the dreary paneling down here makes it seem dungeonish. But wait till you see the orange bathroom upstairs and the candy-cane pink bedroom. […] ”