Synonyms of the word

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

awful

• adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
• adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
• adj. Struck or filled with awe.
• adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
• adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
• adj. Very bad.
• adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

bawdy

• adj. (obsolete) Soiled, dirty.
• adj. Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
• adj. (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude.

bedraggled

• adj. Wet and limp; unkempt.
• adj. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle.

befouled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of befoul.

begrime

• v. (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil.

begrimed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of begrime.

bemire

• v. To soil (or be soiled) with mud.

bespattered

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bespatter.

besplashed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of besplash.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

blasphemous

• adj. Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy.

blue

• adj. Of the colour blue.
• adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
• adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
• adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented…
• adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant…
• adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
• adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
• adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
• adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
• adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
• adj. (comedy) Risque or obscene.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the…
• n. A blue dye or pigment.
• n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
• n. Blue clothing.
• n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
• n. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
• n. The sky, literally or figuratively.
• n. The ocean; deep waters.
• n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
• n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
• n. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
• n. A bluefish.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
• n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
• n. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
• n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
• n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• v. (ergative) To make or become blue.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes…
• v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
• v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
• adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

buggy

• n. A small horse-drawn cart.
• n. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
• n. (Britain) A pushchair; a stroller.
• n. (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.
• adj. Infested with insects.
• adj. (computing) Containing programming errors.
• adj. Resembling an insect.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cheating

• v. present participle of cheat.
• n. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.
• n. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that…
• adj. Unsporting or underhand.
• adj. Unfaithful or adulterous.

cobwebby

• adj. Having many cobwebs.
• adj. Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
• adj. (figuratively) Old or dated.

colly

• adj. (Britain, dialect) black as coal.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to make black, as with coal.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Soot.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A blackbird.
• n. (dated) Alternative spelling of collie.

contaminated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of contaminate.
• adj. adulterated; impure.

contaminating

• v. present participle of contaminate.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

dingy

• adj. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid.
• n. Alternative form of dinghy.

draggled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
• adj. Bedraggled.

dusty

• adj. Covered with dust.
• adj. Powdery and resembling dust.
• adj. Grey in parts.

faecal

• adj. Alternative spelling of fecal.

fecal

• adj. Of or relating to feces.

feculent

• adj. Dirty with faeces or other impurities; turbid; foul, filthy, fetid.

filthy

• adj. Covered with filth; very dirty.
• adj. Obscene or offensive.
• adj. Very unpleasant or disagreeable.
• v. (transitive) To make very dirty; to cover in filth.

flyblown

• adj. contaminated with flyblows.
• adj. tainted.
• adj. sordid, squalid.

foul

• adj. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
• adj. (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
• adj. Detestable, unpleasant.
• adj. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
• adj. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
• adj. (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
• adj. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
• adj. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
• adj. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (transitive) To besmirch.
• v. (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
• v. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
• v. (intransitive) To become clogged.
• v. (intransitive) To become entangled.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
• n. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing…
• n. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released…
• n. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

foul-mouthed

• adj. Tending to use obscene or offensive language.

fouled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of foul.

greasy

• adj. Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.
• adj. Containing a lot of grease or fat.
• adj. (slang) shady, sketchy, dodgy, detestable, unethical.
• adj. (obsolete) fat, bulky.
• adj. (obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent.
• adj. (of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.

grime

• n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
• n. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development…
• v. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

grimy

• adj. Stained or covered with grime.
• adj. (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.

grubby

• adj. Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
• adj. Having grubs in it.
• n. (US, dialect) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.

grungy

• adj. Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
• adj. Of or relating to grunge music.

hostile

• adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence,…
• adj. Aggressive, antagonistic.
• adj. Of a hostile takeover.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

ill-gotten

• adj. Obtained improperly or illegally.

illegal

• adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
• adj. Forbidden by established rules.
• adj. (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
• adj. (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
• n. (colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
• n. An illegal resident spy.

illegible

• adj. Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable.

impure

• adj. Not pure.
• adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy or unhallowed.
• adj. Unchaste or obscene.
• adj. (Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute.

indecent

• adj. offensive to good taste.
• adj. not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly.

infected

• v. simple past tense and past participle of infect.
• adj. Having an infection.

lewd

• adj. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
• adj. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
• adj. (obsolete) Uneducated.
• adj. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
• adj. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.

lousy

• adj. Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.
• adj. Infested with lice.
• adj. (colloquial, usually with with) Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).

maculate

• v. To spot; to stain; to blur.
• adj. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
• adj. Defiled; impure.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

mucky

• adj. (colloquial) Covered in muck.
• adj. (colloquial) Obscene, pornographic.

muddied

• adj. Made dirty with mud.
• adj. Made unclear, obfuscated (generally as part of the phrase muddied the water).
• adj. Made muted of color.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of muddy.

muddy

• adj. Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
• adj. With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
• adj. Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
• adj. Confused; stupid; incoherent; vague.
• adj. (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
• v. (transitive) To get mud on (something).
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle.

nasty

• adj. (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
• adj. Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
• adj. Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
• adj. Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
• adj. Spiteful, unkind.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
• adj. (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
• n. (informal) Something nasty.
• n. (euphemistic, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.

obscene

• adj. Offensive to current standards of decency or morality.
• adj. Lewd or lustful.
• adj. Disgusting or repulsive.
• adj. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) Beyond all reason.
• adj. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) Liable to deprave…

off-color

• adj. Of the wrong color.
• adj. (idiomatic) dirty, vulgar or obscene.
• adj. (idiomatic) different than usual.
• adj. (idiomatic) in poor health.

oily

• adj. Relating to or resembling oil.
• adj. Covered with or containing oil.
• adj. (figuratively) Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
• n. A marble with an oily lustre.
• n. (in the plural, informal) Oilskins. (waterproof garment).

pestiferous

• adj. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.
• adj. annoying, vexatious.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

ratty

• adj. Similar to a rat; ratlike.
• adj. Infested with rats.
• adj. (colloquial) In poor condition or repair; worn out; battered; tattered; torn.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Irritable, annoyed.

raunchy

• adj. Very low class; inferior; inadequate.
• adj. With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.
• adj. Having socially unacceptable sexual behavior.
• adj. Sexually seductive.

ribald

• adj. Coarsely, vulgarly, or lewdly amusing; referring to sexual matters in a rude or irreverent way.
• n. An individual who is filthy or vulgar in nature.

salacious

• adj. Promoting sexual desire or lust.
• adj. Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.

scabrous

• adj. Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
• adj. (figuratively) Disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile.
• adj. (figuratively) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement, harsh, rough; unmelodious, unmusical.
• adj. (figuratively) Difficult, thorny, troublesome.
• adj. (figuratively, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.

scatological

• adj. (formal) Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces…
• adj. Relating to scatology, the usage of obscenities.

scummy

• adj. Covered in scum.
• adj. (slang) sleazy, worthless, no good.

septic

• adj. Of or pertaining to sepsis.
• adj. Causing sepsis or putrefaction.
• adj. Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.
• n. A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.
• n. A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.
• n. (mathematics) A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.
• adj. (mathematics) Of the seventh degree or order.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, rhyming slang, derogatory) An American, a Yank.

smudgy

• adj. Marked with smudges.
• adj. Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot).

smutty

• adj. Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
• adj. Obscene, indecent.

snot-nosed

• adj. (idiomatic) Young and arrogant or conceited.

snotty

• adj. Running or dirtied with snot.
• adj. Resembling or characteristic of snot, especially in texture.
• adj. (informal) Ill-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.
• n. (Australia, slang) The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.

soil

• n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
• n. Country or territory.
• n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
• n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
• n. Dung; compost; manure.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
• v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
• v. To make invalid, to ruin.
• v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
• n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
• n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
• v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

soiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of soil.
• adj. dirty.

sooty

• adj. of, relating to, or producing soot.
• adj. soiled with soot.
• adj. of the color of soot.
• v. To blacken or make dirty with soot.

sordid

• adj. Dirty or squalid.
• adj. Morally degrading.
• adj. Grasping.

spattered

• v. simple past tense and past participle of spatter.

splashed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of splash.

squalid

• adj. Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
• adj. Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.
• n. (zoology) Any member of the Squalidae.

stormy

• adj. Of or pertaining to storms.
• adj. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy…
• adj. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.
• adj. Violent; passionate; rough.

unclean

• adj. Dirty, soiled or foul.
• adj. Not moral or chaste.
• adj. Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.

uncleanly

• adj. Dirty, unhygienic, not clean.
• adj. Not pure in a moral or religious sense.
• adv. not in a clean way; in an unclean way.

unfair

• adj. Not fair, unjust.
• v. To make ugly.

unjust

• adj. Not fair, just or right.

unsporting

• adj. unfair, or not sportsmanlike.

unsportsmanlike

• adj. violating the accepted standards of sportsmanship.

unswept

• adj. Not swept.

untidy

• adj. Sloppy.
• adj. Disorganized.
• v. (transitive) To make untidy.

unwashed

• adj. That has or have not been washed.
• adj. vulgar, plebeian, lowbrow.