Synonyms: soil, grime, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty
Definition: make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Usage: don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: dirty
Definition: unpleasantly stormy
Usage: there's dirty weather in the offing
Similar words: stormy
Definition: (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
Usage: a stormy day; wide and stormy seas
Synonyms: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: 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
Similar words: Augean
Definition: extremely filthy from long neglect
Similar words: bedraggled, draggled
Definition: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
Usage: the beggar's bedraggled clothes; scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts
Similar words: befouled, fouled
Definition: made dirty or foul
Usage: a building befouled with soot; breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot
Similar words: dingy, grubby, grungy, grimy, begrimed, raunchy
Definition: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Usage: a miner's begrimed face; dingy linen; grimy hands; grubby little fingers; a grungy kitchen
Definition: soiled with dirt or soot
Usage: with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
Similar words: buggy
Definition: infested with bugs
Similar words: cobwebby
Definition: covered with cobwebs
Similar words: dirty-faced
Definition: having a dirty face
Usage: a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him
Similar words: feculent
Definition: foul with waste matter
Similar words: foul, filthy, nasty
Definition: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
Usage: as filthy as a pigsty; a foul pond; a nasty pigsty of a room
Similar words: flyblown, squalid, sordid
Definition: foul and run-down and repulsive
Usage: a flyblown bar on the edge of town; a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town; squalid living conditions; sordid shantytowns
Definition: smeared or soiled with grease or oil
Usage: greasy coveralls; get rid of rubbish and oily rags
Similar words: lousy
Definition: infested with lice
Usage: burned their lousy clothes
Similar words: maculate
Definition: spotted or blotched
Definition: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Usage: muddy boots; a mucky stable
Similar words: ratty
Definition: dirty and infested with rats
Similar words: scummy
Definition: covered with scum
Usage: the scummy surface of the polluted pond
Similar words: smudgy
Definition: smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination
Usage: oil-smeared work clothes; hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust- Henry Roth; ink-smudged fingers
Similar words: snot-nosed, snotty
Definition: dirty with nasal discharge
Usage: a snotty nose; a house full of snot-nosed kids
Similar words: sooty
Definition: covered with or as if with soot
Usage: a sooty chimney
Similar words: travel-soiled, travel-stained
Definition: soiled from travel
Usage: travel-soiled clothes
Similar words: uncleanly
Definition: habitually unclean
Similar words: unswept
Definition: not having been swept
Usage: unswept floors
Similar words: unwashed
Definition: not cleaned with or as if with soap and water
Usage: a sink full of unwashed dishes
Synonyms: dirty
Definition: (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
Usage: dirty words; a dirty old man; dirty books and movies; boys telling dirty jokes; has a dirty mouth
Similar words: bawdy, off-color, ribald
Definition: humorously vulgar
Usage: bawdy songs; off-color jokes; ribald language
Similar words: profane, blasphemous, blue
Definition: characterized by profanity or cursing
Usage: foul-mouthed and blasphemous; blue language; profane words
Similar words: dirty-minded
Definition: having lewd thoughts
Similar words: cruddy, nasty, smutty, foul, filthy
Definition: characterized by obscenity
Usage: had a filthy mouth; foul language; smutty jokes
Similar words: foul-mouthed, foul-spoken
Definition: using foul or obscene language
Usage: noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once
Similar words: obscene, salacious, lewd, raunchy
Definition: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
Usage: lewd whisperings of a dirty old man; an indecent gesture; obscene telephone calls; salacious limericks
Similar words: scabrous
Definition: dealing with salacious or indecent material
Usage: a scabrous novel
Similar words: scatological
Definition: dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions
Usage: scatological literature
Definition: unethical or dishonest
Usage: dirty police officers; a sordid political campaign
Similar words: corrupt
Definition: lacking in integrity
Usage: humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation; a corrupt and incompetent city government
Synonyms: unsporting, unsportsmanlike, dirty, foul, cheating
Definition: violating accepted standards or rules
Usage: a dirty fighter; used foul means to gain power; a nasty unsporting serve; fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
Definition: not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
Usage: used unfair methods; it was an unfair trial; took an unfair advantage
Synonyms: dirty
Definition: expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
Usage: dirty looks
Similar words: hostile
Definition: characterized by enmity or ill will
Usage: a hostile nation; a hostile remark; hostile actions
Synonyms: dirty, ill-gotten
Definition: obtained illegally or by improper means
Usage: dirty money; ill-gotten gains
Similar words: illegal
Definition: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
Usage: an illegal chess move
Synonyms: dirty, foul, marked-up
Definition: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
Usage: foul (or dirty) copy
Similar words: illegible
Definition: (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible
Usage: illegible handwriting
Synonyms: lousy, filthy, dirty
Definition: vile; despicable
Usage: a dirty (or lousy) trick; a filthy traitor
Definition: offensive or even (of persons) malicious
Usage: in a nasty mood; a nasty accident; a nasty shock; a nasty smell; a nasty trick to pull; Will he say nasty things at my funeral?- Ezra Pound
Synonyms: muddied, muddy, dingy, dirty
Definition: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
Usage: 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
Similar words: impure
Definition: combined with extraneous elements
Synonyms: pestiferous, dirty
Definition: contaminated with infecting organisms
Usage: dirty wounds; obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen
Similar words: infected, septic
Definition: containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Usage: a septic sore throat; a septic environment; septic sewage