| corrupt | | |
| v. (social) | 1. corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate | corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ carnalise, sensualise, carnalize, sensualize | debase through carnal gratification. |
| ~ infect | corrupt with ideas or an ideology.; "society was infected by racism" |
| ~ lead astray, lead off | teach immoral behavior to.; "It was common practice to lead off the young ones, and teach them bad habits" |
| ~ poison | spoil as if by poison.; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office" |
| ~ bastardise, bastardize | change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms. |
| ~ suborn | incite to commit a crime or an evil deed.; "He suborned his butler to cover up the murder of his wife" |
| v. (possession) | 2. bribe, buy, corrupt, grease one's palms | make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence.; "This judge can be bought" |
| ~ crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence | (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.; "a long record of crimes" |
| ~ pay | give money, usually in exchange for goods or services.; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please" |
| ~ sop | give a conciliatory gift or bribe to. |
| ~ buy off, pay off | pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor. |
| v. (contact) | 3. cloud, corrupt, defile, sully, taint | place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.; "sully someone's reputation" |
| ~ mar, deflower, impair, vitiate, spoil | make imperfect.; "nothing marred her beauty" |
| v. (change) | 4. corrupt, spoil | alter from the original. |
| ~ modify | make less severe or harsh or extreme.; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" |
| ~ adulterate, dilute, debase, load, stretch | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.; "adulterate liquor" |
| adj. | 5. corrupt | lacking in integrity.; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" |
| ~ corrupted, vitiated, debased | ruined in character or quality. |
| ~ bribable, corruptible, purchasable, venal, dishonest | capable of being corrupted.; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" |
| ~ depraved, reprobate, perverse, perverted | deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" |
| ~ sordid, dirty | unethical or dishonest.; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" |
| ~ praetorian, pretorian | characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality.; "a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble" |
| ~ putrid | morally corrupt or evil.; "the putrid atmosphere of the court" |
| ~ sold-out | having taken a bribe or bribes.; "a sold-out politician" |
| ~ immoral | deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong. |
| adj. | 6. corrupt, crooked | not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive. |
| ~ dishonest, dishonorable | deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive. |
| ~ unlawful | contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law.; "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters" |
| ~ sneaky, underhanded, underhand | marked by deception.; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods" |
| adj. | 7. corrupt, corrupted | containing errors or alterations.; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" |
| ~ imperfect | not perfect; defective or inadequate.; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect" |
| adj. | 8. corrupt, tainted | touched by rot or decay.; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" |
| ~ stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| dingy | | |
| adj. | 1. begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy | thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" |
| ~ 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. | 2. 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. | 3. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | causing dejection.; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
| ~ cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| 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. dirty, foul, marked-up | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes.; "foul (or dirty) copy" |
| ~ illegible | (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible.; "illegible handwriting" |
| adj. | 8. 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. | 9. 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. | 10. 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. | 11. 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. | 12. 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" |
| filthy | | |
| adj. | 1. filthy, foul, nasty | disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter.; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" |
| ~ 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. | 2. cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty | characterized by obscenity.; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" |
| ~ 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" |
| foul | | |
| n. (act) | 1. foul | an act that violates the rules of a sport. |
| ~ foul ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field. |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ infringement, violation | an act that disregards an agreement or a right.; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" |
| ~ personal foul | a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football). |
| ~ technical foul, technical | (basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play. |
| v. (competition) | 2. foul | hit a foul ball. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ foul out | baseball: hit a ball such that it is caught from an out in foul territory. |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| v. (change) | 3. 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!" |
| v. (contact) | 4. back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul | become or cause to become obstructed.; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" |
| ~ gum up | stick together as if with gum.; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ crap up | become obstructed or chocked up.; "The drains clogged up" |
| ~ choke up, lug, stuff, block | obstruct.; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" |
| ~ silt, silt up | become chocked with silt.; "The river silted up" |
| v. (competition) | 5. foul | commit a foul; break the rules. |
| ~ play | participate in games or sport.; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches" |
| ~ hack | kick on the shins. |
| ~ hack | kick on the arms. |
| v. (change) | 6. befoul, defile, foul, maculate | spot, stain, or pollute.; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" |
| ~ attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame | bring shame or dishonor upon.; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" |
| v. (change) | 7. foul | make unclean.; "foul the water" |
| ~ begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
| v. (change) | 8. foul | become soiled and dirty. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| adj. | 9. disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky | highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" |
| ~ offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses.; "offensive odors" |
| adj. | 10. fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking | offensively malodorous.; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" |
| ~ ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling | having an unpleasant smell. |
| adj. | 11. foul | (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ out-of-bounds | outside the foul lines. |
| adj. | 12. afoul, foul, fouled | especially of a ship's lines etc.; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" |
| ~ tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
| impure | | |
| adj. | 1. impure | combined with extraneous elements. |
| ~ unclean, impure | having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws.; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you" |
| ~ technical-grade, technical grade | containing small amounts of other chemicals, hence slightly impure.; "technical-grade sulfuric acid" |
| ~ adulterate, adulterated, debased | mixed with impurities. |
| ~ alloyed | (used of metals) debased by mixture with an inferior element. |
| ~ bastardised, bastardized | deriving from more than one source or style. |
| ~ polluted, contaminated | rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution.; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams" |
| ~ muddied, dingy, muddy, dirty | (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" |
| ~ unpurified | not made pure. |
| ~ unprocessed | not altered from an original or natural state.; "unprocessed commodities" |
| adj. | 2. impure | (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene.; "impure thoughts" |
| ~ unchaste | not chaste.; "unchaste conduct" |
| ~ defiled, maculate | morally blemished; stained or impure. |
| adj. | 3. impure, unclean | having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws.; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you" |
| ~ faith, religion, religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.; "he lost his faith but not his morality" |
| ~ nonkosher, terefah, tref | not conforming to dietary laws. |
| ~ untouchable | ( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling. |
| ~ impure | combined with extraneous elements. |
| insanitary | | |
| adj. | 1. insanitary, unhealthful, unsanitary | not sanitary or healthful.; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" |
| ~ unhygienic | unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease.; "pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages" |
| nasty | | |
| adj. | 1. awful, nasty | 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?" |
| ~ filthy, dirty, lousy | vile; despicable.; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" |
| ~ grotty | very unpleasant or offensive.; "a grotty little play" |
| ~ hateful, mean | characterized by malice.; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" |
| ~ unpleasant | disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings.; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" |
| adj. | 2. nasty, tight | exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent.; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| unclean | | |
| unhealthy | | |
| adj. | 1. unhealthy | not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind.; "unhealthy ulcers" |
| ~ unfit | not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition.; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" |
| ~ angry | severely inflamed and painful.; "an angry sore" |
| ~ arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy, creaky | of or pertaining to arthritis.; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" |
| ~ asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy | relating to breathing with a whistling sound. |
| ~ unfit, unsound, bad | physically unsound or diseased.; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" |
| ~ blebby, blistery | covered with small blisters. |
| ~ intumescent, tumescent, puffy, tumid, turgid | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" |
| ~ bloodshot | (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed.; "bloodshot eyes" |
| ~ cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous | having an ulcer or canker. |
| ~ carbuncled, carbuncular | afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle. |
| ~ carious | (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay. |
| ~ caseous | of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike. |
| ~ chilblained | having chilblains.; "her poor chilblained hands" |
| ~ colicky, flatulent, gassy | suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal. |
| ~ cytomegalic | of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells. |
| ~ dehydrated | suffering from excessive loss of water from the body.; "fever resulted from becoming dehydrated"; "was dehydrated after the marathon" |
| ~ diseased, pathologic, morbid, pathological | caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology.; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" |
| ~ dropsical, edematous | swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid. |
| ~ enlarged | larger than normal.; "enlarged joints" |
| ~ foamy, frothing, foaming | producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease.; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth" |
| ~ gangrenous, mortified | suffering from tissue death. |
| ~ inflamed | resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened.; "eyes inflamed with crying" |
| ~ inflammatory | characterized or caused by inflammation.; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response" |
| ~ ingrowing, ingrown | growing abnormally into the flesh.; "an ingrown toenail" |
| ~ icteric, jaundiced, yellow | affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc. |
| ~ membrane-forming, membranous | characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane).; "membranous gastritis" |
| ~ mental | affected by a disorder of the mind.; "a mental patient"; "mental illness" |
| ~ pro-inflammatory, proinflammatory | tending to cause inflammation. |
| ~ sallow, sickly | unhealthy looking. |
| ~ sore-eyed | having sore eyes; suffering from pinkeye or conjunctivitis. |
| ~ sunburned, sunburnt | suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight. |
| ~ varicose | abnormally swollen or knotty.; "varicose veins" |
| ~ windburned, windburnt | suffering from windburn. |
| ~ frail | physically weak.; "an invalid's frail body" |
| ~ ill, sick | affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| adj. | 2. insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy | detrimental to health. |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| adj. | 3. unhealthy | not conducive to good health.; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate" |
| ~ unhealthful | detrimental to good health.; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint" |
| unsanitary | | |
| vile | | |
| adj. | 1. despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched | morally reprehensible.; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 2. loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile | causing or able to cause nausea.; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" |
| ~ unwholesome | detrimental to physical or moral well-being.; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" |
| 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" |
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