Definition of nasty Nasty

/næˈsti/ - [nastee] - nas•ty

We found 17 definitions of nasty from 6 different sources.

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Adjective

nasty, nastier, nastiest

nasty - offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "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
  awful
  nice pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "nice manners"; "a nice dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today"
  unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
  nastiness the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"
  filthy, lousy, dirty disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
  grotty very unpleasant or offensive ; "a grotty little play"
nasty - exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"
  tight
nasty - characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
  cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty
  dirty unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
nasty - disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
  filthy, foul
  soiled, unclean, dirty having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • nasty (superl.)
    Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
  • nasty (superl.)
    Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.
  • nasty (superl.)
    Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • nasty
    Characterized by malice.
  • nasty
    Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • nasty
    nas′ti, adj. dirty: filthy: obscene: disagreeable to the taste or smell: difficult to deal with: ill-natured: nauseous.—adv. Nas′tily.—n. Nas′tiness. [Old form nasky, soft; cf. prov. Swed. snaskig, nasty, Low Ger. nask, nasty.]

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  • nasty, noun, singular of nasties.
  • nasty, adjective.

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