English > dirty: 13 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. |
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| Examples | - "dirty unswept sidewalks"
- "a child in dirty overalls"
- "dirty slums"
- "piles of dirty dishes"
- "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"
- "mining is a dirty job"
- "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
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| Synonyms | soiled, unclean |
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| Attribute of | cleanness | The state of being clean |
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| Narrower | Augean | Extremely filthy from long neglect |
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| bedraggled, draggled | Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud |
| befouled, fouled | made dirty or foul |
| begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy | thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot |
| black, smutty | Soiled with dirt or soot |
| buggy | infested with bugs |
| cobwebby | Covered with cobwebs |
| dirty-faced | Having a dirty face |
| feculent | foul with waste matter |
| filthy, foul, nasty | disgustingly dirty |
| flyblown, squalid, sordid | foul and run-down and repulsive |
| greasy, oily | smeared or soiled with grease or oil |
| lousy | infested with lice |
| maculate | spotted or blotched |
| mucky, muddy | dirty and messy |
| ratty | dirty and infested with rats |
| scummy | Covered with scum |
| smudgy | smeared with something that soils or stains |
| snotty, snot-nosed | dirty with nasal discharge |
| sooty | Covered with or as if with soot |
| travel-soiled, travel-stained | Soiled from travel |
| uncleanly | Habitually unclean |
| unswept | not having been swept / swept |
| unwashed | not cleaned with or as if with soap and water |
| See also | untidy | not neat and tidy |
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| Opposite | clean | Free from dirt or impurities |
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| Spanish | inmundo, sucio |
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| Catalan | brut, immund |
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| Nouns | dirt | the state of being covered with unclean things |
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| dirtiness | the state of being unsanitary |
| Adverbs | dirtily | in a filthy unclean manner |
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English > dirty: 13 senses > adjective 2| Meaning | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency. |
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| Examples | - "dirty words"
- "a dirty old man"
- "dirty books and movies"
- "boys telling dirty jokes"
- "has a dirty mouth"
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| Narrower | bawdy, off-color, ribald | humorously vulgar |
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| blasphemous, blue, profane | Characterized by profanity or cursing |
| cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty | Characterized by obscenity |
| dirty-minded | Having lewd thoughts |
| foul-mouthed, foul-spoken | Using foul or obscene / obscene language |
| lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious | Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness |
| scabrous | Dealing with salacious or indecent material |
| scatological | Dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions |
| See also | indecent | Offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters |
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| Opposite | clean, unobjectionable | (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements |
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| Spanish | sucio |
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| Catalan | brut |
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| Nouns | dirtiness | obscenity in speech or writing |
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English > dirty: 13 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | make soiled, filthy, or dirty. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire |
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| Narrower | blemish, spot | mar or impair with a flaw |
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| crock | Soil with or as with crock |
| foul | make unclean |
| mire, muck, mud, muck up | Soil with mud, muck, or mire |
| muddy, muddy up | dirty with mud |
| pollute, foul, contaminate | make impure |
| slime | Cover or stain with slime |
| smear | stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance |
| splash | Soil or stain with a splashed liquid / liquid |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | clean, make clean | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from |
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| Spanish | emporcar, enmugrecer, ensuciar, manchar |
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| Catalan | embrutar-se, embrutar, embrutir, empastifar, emporcar-se, enllardar-se, ensutzar, pastifejar, sollar, tacar |
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| Nouns | dirtying | the act of soiling something |
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