| Verb | 1. | dirty - 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" smear - stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance slime - cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim" 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" clean, make clean - make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" | |
| Adj. | 1. | dirty - 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"unclean, impure - ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 untidy - not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" clean - free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals" | |
| 2. | 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"indecent - offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" unobjectionable, clean - (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke" | |
| 3. | dirty - 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?"- Ezra Pound | |
| 4. | dirty - spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"uncontaminating, clean - not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean" | |
| 5. | dirty - contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austenseptic - containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" | |
| 6. | dirty - (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"impure - combined with extraneous elements | |
| 7. | dirty - (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"illegible - (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible; "illegible handwriting" | |
| 8. | dirty - 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" | |
| 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" | |
| 10. | dirty - violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"unjust, unfair - not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage" | |
| 11. | dirty - 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" | |
| 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" | |