| dirty | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ foul | make unclean.; "foul the water" |
| ~ contaminate, pollute, foul | make impure.; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" |
| ~ smear | stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance. |
| ~ slime | cover or stain with slime.; "The snake slimed his victim" |
| ~ muddy, muddy up | dirty with mud. |
| ~ splash | soil or stain with a splashed liquid. |
| ~ mud, muck up, muck, mire | soil with mud, muck, or mire.; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" |
| ~ crock | soil with or as with crock. |
| ~ blemish, spot | mar or impair with a flaw.; "her face was blemished" |
| adj. | 2. dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
| ~ augean | extremely filthy from long neglect. |
| ~ bedraggled, draggled | limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" |
| ~ befouled, fouled | made dirty or foul.; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot" |
| ~ begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, grubby, raunchy | thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" |
| ~ smutty, black | soiled with dirt or soot.; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |
| ~ buggy | infested with bugs. |
| ~ cobwebby | covered with cobwebs. |
| ~ dirty-faced | having a dirty face.; "a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him" |
| ~ feculent | foul with waste matter. |
| ~ filthy, nasty, foul | disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter.; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" |
| ~ flyblown, squalid, sordid | foul and run-down and repulsive.; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" |
| ~ greasy, oily | smeared or soiled with grease or oil.; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags" |
| ~ lousy | infested with lice.; "burned their lousy clothes" |
| ~ maculate | spotted or blotched. |
| ~ mucky, muddy | dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck.; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" |
| ~ ratty | dirty and infested with rats. |
| ~ scummy | covered with scum.; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond" |
| ~ smudgy | smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination.; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"; "ink-smudged fingers" |
| ~ snot-nosed, snotty | dirty with nasal discharge.; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" |
| ~ sooty | covered with or as if with soot.; "a sooty chimney" |
| ~ travel-soiled, travel-stained | soiled from travel.; "travel-soiled clothes" |
| ~ uncleanly | habitually unclean. |
| ~ unswept | not having been swept.; "unswept floors" |
| ~ unwashed | not cleaned with or as if with soap and water.; "a sink full of unwashed dishes" |
| ~ untidy | not neat and tidy.; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" |
| adj. | 3. dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" |
| ~ bawdy, ribald, off-color | humorously vulgar.; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" |
| ~ profane, blasphemous, blue | characterized by profanity or cursing.; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" |
| ~ dirty-minded | having lewd thoughts. |
| ~ cruddy, smutty, filthy, nasty, foul | characterized by obscenity.; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" |
| ~ foul-mouthed, foul-spoken | using foul or obscene language.; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once" |
| ~ lewd, raunchy, salacious, obscene | suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" |
| ~ scabrous | dealing with salacious or indecent material.; "a scabrous novel" |
| ~ scatological | dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions.; "scatological literature" |
| ~ indecent | offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters.; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" |
| adj. | 4. dirty, filthy, lousy | vile; despicable.; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" |
| ~ nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious.; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?" |
| adj. | 5. contaminating, dirty | spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" |
| adj. | 6. dirty, pestiferous | contaminated with infecting organisms.; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms" |
| ~ infected, septic | containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms.; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" |
| adj. | 7. dingy, dirty, muddied, muddy | (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear.; "dirty"; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" |
| ~ impure | combined with extraneous elements. |
| adj. | 8. dirty, foul, marked-up | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes.; "foul (or dirty) copy" |
| ~ illegible | (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible.; "illegible handwriting" |
| adj. | 9. dirty, ill-gotten | obtained illegally or by improper means.; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains" |
| ~ illegal | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.; "an illegal chess move" |
| adj. | 10. dirty | expressing or revealing hostility or dislike.; "dirty looks" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| adj. | 11. cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | violating accepted standards or rules.; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" |
| ~ unfair, unjust | not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception.; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage" |
| adj. | 12. dirty, sordid | unethical or dishonest.; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" |
| ~ corrupt | lacking in integrity.; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" |
| adj. | 13. dirty | unpleasantly stormy.; "there's dirty weather in the offing" |
| ~ stormy | (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion.; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" |
| sordid | | |
| adj. | 1. seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid | morally degraded.; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" |
| ~ disreputable | lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance. |
| adj. | 2. flyblown, sordid, squalid | foul and run-down and repulsive.; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" |
| ~ dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
| adj. | 3. sordid | meanly avaricious and mercenary.; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests" |
| ~ acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas.; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
| cesspool | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. cesspit, cesspool, sink, sump | a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it. |
| ~ cistern | an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater. |
| filth | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. crud, filth, skank | any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant. |
| ~ waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" |
| n. (state) | 2. dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain | the state of being covered with unclean things. |
| ~ dirtiness, uncleanness | the state of being unsanitary. |
| n. (state) | 3. filth, filthiness, foulness, nastiness | a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. |
| ~ unsanitariness | a state that is not conducive to health. |
| n. (communication) | 4. dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut, vulgarism | an offensive or indecent word or phrase. |
| ~ fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shtup, ass, shag, screw | slang for sexual intercourse. |
| ~ cock, pecker, dick, peter, putz, prick, tool, shaft | obscene terms for penis. |
| ~ bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, irish bull, crap, shit, bull | obscene words for unacceptable behavior.; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" |
| ~ chickenshit | a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear. |
| ~ bawdry, bawdy | lewd or obscene talk or writing.; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" |
| ~ scatology | a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions). |
| ~ profanity | vulgar or irreverent speech or action. |
| ~ asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, son of a bitch, cocksucker, sob, whoreson, shit | insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous. |
| ~ peeing, pissing, pee, piss | informal terms for urination.; "he took a pee" |
| ~ bugger all, fanny adams, fuck all, sweet fanny adams | little or nothing at all.; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery" |
| ~ crap, poop, shit, shite, turd, dirt | obscene terms for feces. |
| ~ shitless | extremely frightened.; "he was scared shitless" |
| sewage | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. sewage, sewerage | waste matter carried away in sewers or drains. |
| ~ waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" |
| ~ effluent, sewer water, wastewater | water mixed with waste matter. |
| waste | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ dross, impurity | worthless or dangerous material that should be removed.; "there were impurities in the water" |
| ~ exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes | gases ejected from an engine as waste products. |
| ~ body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body. |
| ~ filth, skank, crud | any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant. |
| ~ sewage, sewerage | waste matter carried away in sewers or drains. |
| ~ effluent, sewer water, wastewater | water mixed with waste matter. |
| ~ food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps | food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). |
| ~ pollutant | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil. |
| ~ rubbish, trash, scrap | worthless material that is to be disposed of. |
| ~ slop | (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.; "she carried out the sink slops" |
| ~ toxic industrial waste, toxic waste | poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means). |
| n. (act) | 2. dissipation, waste, wastefulness | useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" |
| ~ boondoggle | work of little or no value done merely to look busy. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ waste of effort, waste of energy | a useless effort. |
| ~ waste of material | a useless consumption of material. |
| ~ waste of money | money spent for inadequate return.; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money" |
| ~ waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity.; "the waste of time could prove fatal" |
| ~ high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance | excessive spending. |
| ~ squandering | spending resources lavishly and wastefully.; "more wasteful than the squandering of time" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources.; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" |
| ~ improvidence, shortsightedness | a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources. |
| n. (location) | 4. barren, waste, wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
| ~ heathland, heath | a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. |
| ~ wild, wilderness | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition.; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" |
| n. (act) | 5. permissive waste, waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| v. (possession) | 6. blow, squander, waste | spend thoughtlessly; throw away.; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" |
| ~ expend, use | use up, consume fully.; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| ~ blow | spend lavishly or wastefully on.; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater" |
| ~ burn | spend (significant amounts of money).; "He has money to burn" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. waste | use inefficiently or inappropriately.; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" |
| ~ apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize | put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| v. (possession) | 8. waste | get rid of.; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| v. (motion) | 9. run off, waste | run off as waste.; "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
| ~ course, flow, run, feed | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| v. (contact) | 10. do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste | get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| v. (consumption) | 11. consume, squander, ware, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| ~ fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot | spend frivolously and unwisely.; "Fritter away one's inheritance" |
| ~ luxuriate, wanton | become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously. |
| ~ lavish, shower | expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.; "He was showered with praise" |
| ~ overspend | spend at a high rate. |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ splurge, fling | indulge oneself.; "I splurged on a new TV" |
| v. (change) | 12. languish, pine away, waste | lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.; "After her husband died, she just pined away" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| v. (change) | 13. emaciate, macerate, waste | cause to grow thin or weak.; "The treatment emaciated him" |
| ~ emaciate | grow weak and thin or waste away physically.; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy" |
| ~ debilitate, enfeeble, drain | make weak.; "Life in the camp drained him" |
| v. (change) | 14. desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| ~ ruin | reduce to ruins.; "The country lay ruined after the war" |
| v. (body) | 15. rot, waste | become physically weaker.; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
| ~ degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify | undergo necrosis.; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" |
| adj. | 16. godforsaken, waste, wild | located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" |
| ~ inhospitable | unfavorable to life or growth.; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" |
| pollute | | |
| v. (change) | 1. contaminate, foul, pollute | make impure.; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" |
| ~ infect, taint | contaminate with a disease or microorganism. |
| ~ begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
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