Word Meanings - FILTHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish;
Additional info about word: FILTHY
Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish; gross; vulgar; licentious. See Nasty.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FILTHY)
- Obscene
- Impure
- immodest
- indecent
- lewd
- four
- indelicate
- filthy
- disgusting
- foul-mouthed
- Sordid
- Dirty
- foul
- gross
- vile
- base
- mean
- avaricious
- covetous
- selfish
- venal
- niggardly
- beggarly
- closefisted
- hidebound
- greedy
- Squalid
- Foul
- dirty
- untended
- nasty
- unclean
- mucky
- poverty-stricken
Related words: (words related to FILTHY)
- SQUALIDLY
In a squalid manner. - SORDIDNESS
The quality or state of being sordid. - 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. - 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 - INDELICATE
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; - IMMODESTLY
In an immodest manner. - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - FOUL-MOUTHED
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison. - SORDID
1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous; - SQUALIDITY
The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness. - DISGUSTFUL
Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke. - INDECENT
Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language. Cowper. Syn. -- Unbecoming; indecorous; indelicate; unseemly; immodest; gross; shameful; impure; improper; obscene; filthy. - IMPURE
Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water - IMMODESTY
Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope. - GREEDY-GUT
A glutton. Todd. - IMMODEST
1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate. 2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder - GROSSULAR
Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - INGROSS
See ENGROSS - RAVENALA
A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and - PHOTO-EPINASTY
A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light. Encyc. Brit.