[syn: dirty, sordid]
12. unpleasantly stormy;
- Example: "there's dirty weather in the offing"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dirty \Dirt"y\, a. [Compar. Dirtier; superl. Dirtiest.]
1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure;
serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty
white. --Spenser.
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2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. --Locke.
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3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
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The creature's at his dirty work again. --Pope.
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4. Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.
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Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.
--M. Arnold.
Syn: Nasty; filthy; foul. See Nasty.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dirty \Dirt"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dirtied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dirtying.]
1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes
or hands.
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2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of
reputation, character, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Colorless \Col"or*less\, a.
1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent;
as, colorless water; a colorless gas.
Note: [Narrower terms: ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale,
pallid, pasty, wan, waxen; neutral; white] [Also
See: achromatic, colorless.]
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2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar
sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes,
prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style;
definitions should be colorless.
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3. having lost its normal color.
Note: [Narrower terms: blanched, etiolate, etiolated,
whitened; bleached, faded, washed-out, washy;
dimmed, dulled, grayed; dirty; dull, sober,
somber, subfusc] colored
Syn: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dirty
adj 1: 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" [syn: dirty, soiled,
unclean] [ant: clean]
2: (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" [ant: clean, unobjectionable]
3: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy
traitor" [syn: dirty, filthy, lousy]
4: 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" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant:
clean, uncontaminating]
5: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds";
"obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn:
dirty, pestiferous]
6: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;
"dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy)
white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors";
"dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty,
dingy, muddied, muddy]
7: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty)
copy" [syn: dirty, foul, marked-up]
8: obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-
gotten gains" [syn: dirty, ill-gotten]
9: expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"
10: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter";
"used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve";
"fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a),
dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
11: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid
political campaign" [syn: dirty, sordid]
12: unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
v 1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes
when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime,
grime, colly, bemire] [ant: clean, make clean]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
329 Moby Thesaurus words for "dirty":
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abject, abominable, abusive, angry,
animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, arrant, atrocious, attaint, bad, barfy,
base, base-minded, bawdy, bedaub, bedraggled, befoul, befouled,
beggarly, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmear, besmeared, besmirch,
besmirched, besmoke, besoil, bestain, bitter, black, blacken,
blasphemous, blotchy, blowing, blowy, blue, blur, blustering,
blustery, brand, bum, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal,
castellatus, cheesy, cirrose, cirrous, clitoromaniacal,
cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, coarse, comminatory, concupiscent,
contaminated, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, crappy, creepy,
crummy, cumuliform, cumulous, cursing, cyclonic, damnatory, dark,
darken, daub, debased, deceitful, defile, defiled, degraded,
denunciatory, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirt, dirty up,
dirty-minded, discolor, discompose, disgusting, dishonest,
dishonorable, disloyal, draggled, draggletailed, dungy, dust,
dusty, dysphemistic, epithetic, erotic, eroticomaniacal,
erotomaniacal, evil-minded, evilhearted, excommunicative,
excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, filthy, flagrant, fleshly,
foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fuliginous,
fulminatory, fulsome, furious, gloomy, goatish, godawful,
goshawful, grave, grim, grime, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy,
gynecomaniacal, hairy, heavy, heinous, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal,
icky, ignoble, ignominious, immoral, imprecatory, impure, indecent,
infamous, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lenticularis, lewd,
libidinous, licentious, lickerish, little, low, low-down,
low-minded, low-thoughted, lubricious, lumpen, lurid, lustful,
maledictory, malevolent, malicious, mammatus, mangy, mark, mean,
measly, messy, mire, miry, miserable, monstrous, muck, muck up,
mucky, muddy, murky, nasty, nebulous, nefarious, nimbose, nubilous,
nymphomaniacal, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off color, offensive,
oozy, overcast, overclouded, paltry, perfidious, petty, plashy,
poky, pollute, polluted, poor, pornographic, priapic, profane,
prurient, punk, putrid, raging, rainy, randy, rank, raunchy, raw,
reptilian, resentful, ribald, risque, rotten, rough, rude,
salacious, satyric, scabby, scabrous, scatologic, scatological,
scorch, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy,
sear, sensual, sexual, sexy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, singe, slabby,
slatternly, slime, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly,
slubber, sludgy, slur, slushy, small, smear, smirch, smirched,
smirchy, smoke, smoking-room, smoky, smooch, smudge, smudged,
smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soft, soil, soiled, soily, soot,
sooty, sordid, splashy, sposhy, spotted, squalid, squally, squashy,
squelchy, squishy, stain, stained, stigmatize, stinking, stinky,
storming, stormy, stratiform, stratous, sullied, sully, sultry,
taint, tainted, tar, tarnish, tempestuous, thunderheaded, tornadic,
treacherous, turbid, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, unchaste,
unclean, uncleanly, underhanded, unfair, unmentionable,
unprintable, unrepeatable, unscrupulous, unsporting,
unsportsmanlike, untidy, unwashed, vile, villainous, vituperative,
vomity, vulgar, windy, wrathful, wretched, yecchy