Definition of dirty Dirty
/dɚˈti/ - [dertee] - dirt•y
We found 37 definitions of dirty from 5 different sources.
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| dirty - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" | ||
| soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire | ||
| make clean, clean remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| foul become soiled and dirty | ||
| pollute, contaminate, foul make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" | ||
| smear make a smudge on; soil by smudging | ||
| slime cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim" | ||
| muddy up, muddy make turbid; "muddy the water" | ||
| splash mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered; "The mountain was splashed with snow" | ||
| muck up, mud, muck, mire plaster with mud | ||
| crock soil with or as with crock | ||
| blemish, spot mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" | ||
Adjectivedirty, dirtier, dirtiest |
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| dirty - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "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" | ||
| soiled, unclean | ||
| clean free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years" | ||
| untidy not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" | ||
| cleanness without moral defects | ||
| augean extremely filthy from long neglect | ||
| draggled, bedraggled limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" | ||
| befouled, fouled made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot" | ||
| begrimed, grimy, grungy, grubby, dingy, raunchy thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" | ||
| smutty, black marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" | ||
| buggy infested with bugs | ||
| cobwebby covered with cobwebs | ||
| dirty-faced having a dirty face; "a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him" | ||
| feculent foul with waste matter | ||
| filthy, nasty, foul disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" | ||
| squalid, flyblown, sordid especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation" | ||
| greasy, oily smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags" | ||
| lousy infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes" | ||
| maculate spotted or blotched | ||
| mucky, muddy dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" | ||
| ratty dirty and infested with rats | ||
| scummy covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond" | ||
| smudgy smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers" | ||
| snot-nosed, snotty dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" | ||
| sooty covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney" | ||
| travel-soiled, travel-stained soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes" | ||
| uncleanly habitually unclean | ||
| unswept not having been swept; "unswept floors" | ||
| dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" | ||
| unobjectionable, clean not objectionable; "the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept" | ||
| indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" | ||
| bawdy, ribald, off-color humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" | ||
| blasphemous, profane, blue characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" | ||
| dirty-minded having lewd thoughts | ||
| cruddy, smutty, filthy, nasty, foul characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" | ||
| foul-mouthed, foul-spoken using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once" | ||
| lewd, salacious, obscene, raunchy suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" | ||
| scabrous dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel" | ||
| dirty - (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" | ||
| dingy, muddied, muddy | ||
| impure (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts" | ||
| dirty - 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" | ||
| contaminating | ||
| dirty - vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" | ||
| filthy, lousy | ||
| nasty, awful exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" | ||
| dirty - unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" | ||
| sordid | ||
| corrupt lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" | ||
| dirty - contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen | ||
| pestiferous | ||
| infected, septic containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" | ||
| dirty - unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing" | ||
| dirty - expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks" | ||
| dirty - obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains" | ||
| ill-gotten | ||
| dirty - (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" | ||
| foul, marked-up | ||
| dirty - violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" | ||
| cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | ||
| unfair, unjust not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- dirty (Verb)
To make something dirty. - dirty (Verb)
To stain or tarnish somebody with dishonor. - dirty (Verb)
To debase by distorting the real nature of something. - dirty (Verb)
To become soiled. - dirty (Adverb)
In a dirty manner. - dirty (Adjective)
Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. - dirty (Adjective)
That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting. - dirty (Adjective)
Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually. - dirty (Adjective)
Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules. - dirty (Adjective)
Corrupt, illegal, or improper. - dirty (Adjective)
Out of tune. - dirty (Adjective)
Of color, discolored by impurities. - dirty (Adjective)
Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory. - dirty (Adjective)
Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream. - dirty (Adjective)
Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dirty (superl.)
Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. - dirty (superl.)
Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. - dirty (superl.)
Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. - dirty (superl.)
Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. - dirty (v. t.)
To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands. - dirty (v. t.)
To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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dirty
Covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. -
dirty
To make filthy.
Part of speech
🔤- dirty, verb, present, 1st person singular of dirty (infinitive).
- dirty, verb (infinitive).
- dirty, adjective.
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