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Adjective dirty has 12 senses
- 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"
Antonyms: clean, cleanable, cleaned, cleansed, cleanly, dry-cleaned, fresh, unused, immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick, spotless, pristine, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, washed, water-washed, scrubbed
- 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"
Antonyms: clean, unobjectionable, antiseptic
- dirty, filthy, lousy - vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
Antonym: nice (indirect, via nasty)
- dirty, contaminating - 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"
Antonyms: clean, uncontaminating
- contaminated, dirty, infected, pestiferous - contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
Antonym: antiseptic (indirect, via septic)
- dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy - (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"
Antonym: pure (indirect, via impure)
- dirty, foul, marked-up - (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"
Antonym: legible (indirect, via illegible)
- dirty, ill-gotten - obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"
Antonym: legal (indirect, via illegal)
- dirty - expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"
Antonym: amicable (indirect, via hostile)
- 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"
Antonyms: fair, just (indirect, via unfair)
- dirty, sordid - unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
Antonym: incorrupt (indirect, via corrupt)
- dirty - unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
Antonym: calm (indirect, via stormy)
Verb dirty has 1 sense
- dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: clean, make clean
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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