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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, run-down |
| Synonyms: | abominable, base, broken-down, decayed, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, gruesome, horrible, horrid, ignoble, impure, low, mean, miry, moldy, muddy, musty, nasty, odorous, offensive, poverty-stricken, ramshackle, reeking, repellent, repulsive, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sloppy, slovenly, soiled, sordid, ugly, unclean, unkempt, vile, wretched |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, kept-up, rich |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
| Synonyms: | dingy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, impure, nasty, soiled, sooty, spotted, squalid, stained, unclean, uncleanly |
| Antonyms: | clean |
| Main Entry: | dirty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, unclean |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, begrimed, black, contaminated, cruddy, crummy, defiled, disarrayed, dishabille, disheveled, dreggy, dungy, dusty, filthy, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, icky, lousy, messy, mucky, muddy, mung, murky, nasty, pigpen, polluted, raunchy, scummy, scuzzy, slatternly, slimy, sloppy, slovenly, smudged, smutty, sooty, spattered, spotted, squalid, stained, straggly, sullied, undusted, unhygienic, unkempt, unlaundered, unsanitary, unsightly, unswept, untidy, unwashed, yucky |
| Antonyms: | clean, pure, spotless, sterile |
| Main Entry: | dirty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, pornographic |
| Synonyms: | base, blue, coarse, contemptible, despicable, filthy, immoral, impure, indecent, lewd, low, mean, nasty, off-color, ribald, risqué, salacious, scatological, scurvy, smutty, sordid, squalid, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, vile, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, upright |
| Main Entry: | filthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, polluted |
| Synonyms: | begrimed, black, blackened, cruddy, crummy, disheveled, fecal, feculent, foul, grimy, gross*, grubby, grungy, impure, loathsome, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, offensive, putrid, repulsive, revolting, scummy, sleazy, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smoky, soiled, soily, sooty, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unwashed, verminous, vile, yecchy |
| Antonyms: | clean, pure, sterile, unpolluted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foul |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting, dirty |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, base, contaminated, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, dishonorable, egregious, fetid, filthy, gross*, hateful, heinous, horrid, icky, impure, infamous, iniquitous, loathsome, malodorous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, offensive, pigpen, polluted, putrid, rank*, raunchy*, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameful, squalid, stinking, sullied, tainted, unclean, vicious, vile, wicked, yecchy, yucky |
| Antonyms: | clean, fragrant, pleasing, pure, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grimy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
| Synonyms: | begrimed, besmirched, cruddy, dingy*, filthy, foul, grubby, grungy, messy, mucky, nasty, scuzzy, sleazy*, smeared, smutty, soiled, sooty, sordid, squalid, unclean |
| Antonyms: | clean, pure, sterile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grubby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, disheveled |
| Synonyms: | besmeared, black, filthy, foul, frowzy, grimy, grungy, impure, messy, mucky, nasty, scruffy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | clean, cleanly, dressed-up, neat |
| Main Entry: | impure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not clean mentally, physically; mixed |
| Synonyms: | admixed, adulterated, alloyed, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, doctored, filthy, foul, gross*, grubby, immodest, immoral, indecent, infected, lewd, nasty, not pure, obscene, polluted, profaned, smutty, squalid, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unrefined, unwholesome, vile, vitiated, weighted, wicked |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, impeccable, pure, sterile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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