Antonyms for dirty

Antonyms for (verb) dirty

Main entry: soil, grime, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty

Definition: make soiled, filthy, or dirty

Usage: don't soil your clothes when you play outside!

Antonyms: clean, make clean

Definition: make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from


Antonyms for (adj) dirty

Main entry: 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

Antonyms: clean

Definition: free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits


Antonyms: fair

Definition: (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines


Antonyms: white

Definition: (board games) the lighter pieces


Antonyms: white, whiteness

Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)


Antonyms: white

Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration


Antonyms: white

Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light


Antonyms: nice

Definition: pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance


Antonyms: swept

Definition: possessing sweep


Main entry: 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

Antonyms: unobjectionable, clean

Definition: (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers


Antonyms: fair

Definition: (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines


Antonyms: sacred

Definition: concerned with religion or religious purposes


Antonyms: nice

Definition: pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance


Main entry: contaminating, dirty

Definition: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination

Usage: the air near the foundry was always dirty; a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout

Antonyms: clean, uncontaminating

Definition: not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination


Main entry: dirty

Definition: expressing or revealing hostility or dislike

Usage: dirty looks

Antonyms: friendly

Definition: troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces


Antonyms: friendly

Definition: of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally


Antonyms: amicable

Definition: characterized by friendship and good will


Main entry: dirty, sordid

Definition: unethical or dishonest

Usage: dirty police officers; a sordid political campaign

Antonyms: incorrupt

Definition: free of corruption or immorality


Main entry: dirty

Definition: unpleasantly stormy

Usage: there's dirty weather in the offing

Antonyms: calm

Definition: (of weather) free from storm or wind


Main entry: lousy, filthy, dirty

Definition: vile; despicable

Usage: a dirty (or lousy) trick; a filthy traitor

Antonyms: nice

Definition: pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance


Main entry: 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

Antonyms: pure

Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless


Antonyms: pure

Definition: free of extraneous elements of any kind


Main entry: 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

Antonyms: just, fair

Definition: free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules


Antonyms: just

Definition: used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting


Main entry: dirty, ill-gotten

Definition: obtained illegally or by improper means

Usage: dirty money; ill-gotten gains

Antonyms: legal

Definition: established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules


Main entry: dirty, foul, marked-up

Definition: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes

Usage: foul (or dirty) copy

Antonyms: legible

Definition: (of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered


Main entry: pestiferous, dirty

Definition: contaminated with infecting organisms

Usage: dirty wounds; obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen

Antonyms: antiseptic

Definition: thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms


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