Word Meanings - DIRTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser. 2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke. 3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's

Additional info about word: DIRTY

1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser. 2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke. 3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope. 4. Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. M. Arnold. Syn. -- Nasty; filthy; foul. See Nasty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIRTY)

• Filthy
• Dirty
• nasty
• dingy
• impure
• unclean
• squalid
• foul
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• trivial
• illiberal
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• Sordid
• filthy
• gross
• vile
• base
• avaricious
• covetous
• selfish
• venal
• niggardly
• beggarly
• closefisted
• hidebound
• greedy
• Squalid
• Foul
• untended
• mucky
• poverty-stricken
• Sully
• Soil
• efface
• taint
• tarnish
• spot
• stain
• spoil
• disgrace
• dishonor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIRTY)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe
• Purify
• wash
• cleanse
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

Related words: (words related to DIRTY)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.