grubbiness

Main Entry:
grubbiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dirtiness
Synonyms: decay, destitution, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, smuttiness, squalor, starvation, uncleanliness, uncleanness, wretchedness
Main Entry: disorderliness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disorder
Synonyms: bedlam, chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorderedness, disorganization, grubbiness, mess, messiness, mix-up, muddiness, pandemonium, sloppiness, topsy-turviness, unkemptness, untidiness
Main Entry: filthiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dirty state
Synonyms: dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness
Main Entry: foulness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dirty state
Synonyms: dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, griminess, grubbiness, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness
Main Entry: griminess
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dirtiness
Synonyms: decay, destitution, filth, filthiness, foulness, grubbiness, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, smuttiness, squalor, starvation, uncleanliness, uncleanness, wretchedness
Main Entry: smuttiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dirtiness
Synonyms: cruddiness, dregs, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, rottenness, squalor, tarnish, uncleanliness, uncleanness
Main Entry: uncleanness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dirtiness
Synonyms: cruddiness, dregs, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, rottenness, smuttiness, squalor, tarnish, uncleanliness
Related Words
Main Entry: filthiness
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
Augean, abominable, amurcous, bad, beastly, bloody, camarine, carious, coarse, colluvial, conspurcated, corrupt, crapulous, dirty, dowdy, draggletailed, dreggy, duddie, dusty, effete, excrementitious, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fimetic, flothery, flyblown, foul, frowzy, fusty, gory, grimy, gross, gurry, high, immund, impetiginous, impure, inquinated, maculate, maggoty, meraculous, mildewed, moldy, moth, musty, nasty, offensive, peccant, pedicular, pulicose, purulent, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, pythogenic, quisquilian, rancid, reasty, reechy, reeky, rotten, rotting, ruderous, rusty, scumbered, scurfy, slimy, slovenly, sluttish, smoky, smutty, snuffy, soiled, sooty, stercoraceous, sterquilinian, tainted, tatterdemalion, thick, touched, turbid, tuzzimuzzy, unclean, uncleanly, uncombed, unkempt, unpurified, unscoured, unstrained, unswept, untidy, unwashed, unwiped
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Uncleanness.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience
Synonyms:
-nouns
uncleanness; impurity; immundity, immundicity; impurity [of mind] [more]., defilement, contamination; defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo., slovenry; slovenliness, squalor., dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dustman, sweep; beast., dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle., sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders; recrement, slag; scum, froth., hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar., riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch., mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U. S.]., spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; exereta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost., dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole., sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.
-verbs
be unclean, become unclean; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad., render unclean; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease; dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt (injure); cover with dust; drabble in the mud; roil., wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
-adjectives
unclean, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.]., uncleanly, slovenly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; grody to the max; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly., nasty, coarse, foul, impure, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid., moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese., crapulous (intemperate); gross (impure in mind); fimetarious, fimicolous.
-phrases
"they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].
Antonyms: cleanness
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