English > soiled: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. |
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| Synonyms | dirty, 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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