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English adjective: dirty | |||
| 1. | dirty soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | soiled, unclean | ||
| Similar | Augean, bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, black, buggy, cobwebby, dingy, dirty-faced, draggled, feculent, filthy, flyblown, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, lousy, maculate, mucky, muddy, nasty, oily, ratty, raunchy, scummy, smudgy, smutty, snot-nosed, snotty, sooty, sordid, squalid, travel-soiled, travel-stained, uncleanly, unswept, unwashed | ||
| See also | untidy | ||
| Attribute | cleanness | ||
| Antonyms | clean | ||
| 2. | dirty (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency | ||
| Samples | Dirty words. A dirty old man. Dirty books and movies. Boys telling dirty jokes. Has a dirty mouth. | ||
| Similar | bawdy, blasphemous, blue, cruddy, dirty-minded, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, lewd, nasty, obscene, off-color, profane, raunchy, ribald, salacious, scabrous, scatological, smutty | ||
| See also | indecent | ||
| Antonyms | unobjectionable, clean | ||
| 3. | dirty vile; despicable | ||
| Samples | A dirty (or lousy) trick. A filthy traitor. | ||
| Synonyms | filthy, lousy | ||
| Similar | awful, nasty | ||
| Antonyms | nice | ||
| 4. | dirty spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | ||
| Samples | The air near the foundry was always dirty. A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout. | ||
| Synonyms | contaminating | ||
| Antonyms | uncontaminating, clean | ||
| 5. | dirty contaminated with infecting organisms | ||
| Samples | Dirty wounds. Obliged to go into infected rooms. | ||
| Synonyms | pestiferous | ||
| Similar | infected, septic | ||
| Antonyms | antiseptic | ||
| 6. | dirty (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | ||
| Samples | Dirty. A dirty (or dingy) white. The muddied grey of the sea. Muddy colors. Dirty-green walls. Dirty-blonde hair. | ||
| Synonyms | dingy, muddied, muddy | ||
| Similar | impure | ||
| Antonyms | pure | ||
| 7. | dirty (of a manuscript) defaced with changes | ||
| Samples | Foul (or dirty) copy. | ||
| Synonyms | foul, marked-up | ||
| Similar | illegible | ||
| Antonyms | legible | ||
| 8. | dirty obtained illegally or by improper means | ||
| Samples | Dirty money. Ill-gotten gains. | ||
| Synonyms | ill-gotten | ||
| Similar | illegal | ||
| Antonyms | legal | ||
| 9. | dirty expressing or revealing hostility or dislike | ||
| Samples | Dirty looks. | ||
| Similar | hostile | ||
| Antonyms | amicable | ||
| 10. | dirty violating accepted standards or rules | ||
| Samples | A dirty fighter. Used foul means to gain power. A nasty unsporting serve. Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior. | ||
| Synonyms | cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | ||
| Similar | unfair, unjust | ||
| Antonyms | fair, just | ||
| 11. | dirty unethical or dishonest | ||
| Samples | Dirty police officers. A sordid political campaign. | ||
| Synonyms | sordid | ||
| Similar | corrupt | ||
| Antonyms | incorrupt | ||
| 12. | dirty unpleasantly stormy | ||
| Samples | There's dirty weather in the offing. | ||
| Similar | stormy | ||
| Antonyms | calm | ||
English verb: dirty | |||
| 1. | dirty (contact) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | ||
| Samples | Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!. | ||
| Synonyms | begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blemish, contaminate, crock, foul, foul, mire, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, muddy up, pollute, slime, smear, splash, spot | ||
| Antonyms | clean, make clean | ||
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