dirty
make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
• Syn:
soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
• Ant:
clean
• Derivationally related forms:
grime (for: grime), soil (for: soil), soilure (for: soil), soiling (for: soil), dirtying
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
foul, pollute, contaminate, smear, slime,
muddy, muddy up, splash, mire, muck, mud,
muck up, crock, blemish, spot
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
1. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime (Freq. 12)
- dirty unswept sidewalks
- a child in dirty overalls
- dirty slums
- piles of dirty dishes
- put his dirty feet on the clean sheet
- wore an unclean shirt
- mining is a dirty job
- Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
• Syn:
soiled, unclean
• Ant:
clean
• Similar to:
Augean, bedraggled, draggled, befouled, fouled,
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy,
black, smutty, buggy, cobwebby, dirty-faced, feculent,
filthy, foul, nasty, flyblown, squalid, sordid,
greasy, oily, lousy, maculate, mucky, muddy,
ratty, scummy, smudgy, snotty, snot-nosed, sooty,
travel-soiled, travel-stained, uncleanly, unswept, unwashed
• See Also:
untidy
• Derivationally related forms:
uncleanness (for: unclean), dirt, dirtiness
• Attrubites:
cleanness
2. (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency (Freq. 2)
- dirty words
- a dirty old man
- dirty books and movies
- boys telling dirty jokes
- has a dirty mouth
• Ant:
clean
• Similar to:
bawdy, off-color, ribald, blasphemous, blue,
profane, dirty-minded, cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty,
smutty, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, lewd, obscene, raunchy,
salacious, scabrous, scatological
• See Also:
indecent
• Derivationally related forms:
dirtiness
3. vile;
despicable (Freq. 1)
- a dirty (or lousy) trick
- a filthy traitor
• Syn:
filthy, lousy
• Similar to:
nasty, awful
• Derivationally related forms:
lousiness (for: lousy), filthiness (for: filthy)
4. contaminated with infecting organisms
- dirty wounds
- "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
• Syn:
pestiferous
• Similar to:
septic, infected
• Derivationally related forms:
dirtiness
5. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- foul (or dirty) copy
• Syn:
foul, marked-up
• Similar to:
illegible
6. obtained illegally or by improper means
- dirty money
- ill-gotten gains
• Syn:
ill-gotten
• Similar to:
illegal
7. expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- dirty looks
• Similar to:
hostile
8. violating accepted standards or rules
- a dirty fighter
- used foul means to gain power
- a nasty unsporting serve
- fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
• Syn:
cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
• Similar to:
unfair, unjust
• Derivationally related forms:
foulness (for: foul)
9. (of color) discolored by impurities;
not bright and clear
- "dirty" is often used in combination
- a dirty (or dingy) white
- the muddied grey of the sea
- muddy colors
- dirty-green walls
- dirty-blonde hair
• Syn:
dingy, muddied, muddy
• Similar to:
impure
• Derivationally related forms:
muddiness (for: muddy), dinge (for: dingy), dinginess (for: dingy)
10. spreading pollution or contamination;
especially radioactive contamination
- the air near the foundry was always dirty
- a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout
• Syn:
contaminating
• Ant:
clean
• Derivationally related forms:
dirt, dirtiness
11. unethical or dishonest
- dirty police officers
- a sordid political campaign
• Syn:
sordid
• Similar to:
corrupt
• Derivationally related forms:
sordidness (for: sordid)
12. unpleasantly stormy
- there's dirty weather in the offing
• Similar to:
stormy
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