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)
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.