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filthy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of filthy

1 depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
  • You cannot use such filthy language on the public airwaves.
Synonyms of filthy

bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, foul, gross, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, nasty, obscene, ribald, smutty, vulgar, wanton
Words Related to filthy

broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive

earthy, scatological

immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming

depraved, kinky, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked

exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome

abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting

distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant

abusive, scurrilous
Near Antonyms of filthy

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

innocuous, inoffensive

appropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitable

immaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginal
Antonyms of filthy

clean, decent, nonobscene, wholesome
2 not clean
  • You can't go out unless you clean this filthy room first.
Synonyms of filthy

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, smutty, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly
Words Related to filthy

contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted

insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed

greasy, gunky

littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, sleazy, squalid
Near Antonyms of filthy

clear, limpid, pure

cleaned, cleansed, combed, groomed, neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

bleached, purified, whitened

bright, flawless, perfect, shiny, sparkling, unspotted, untouched

taintless, unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, virgin, wholesome
Antonyms of filthy

clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied

Synonym Discussion of filthy

dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, squalid mean conspicuously unclean or impure. dirty emphasizes the presence of dirt more than an emotional reaction to it.
    • a dirty littered street
filthy carries a strong suggestion of offensiveness and typically of gradually accumulated dirt that begrimes and besmears.
    • a stained greasy floor, utterly filthy
foul implies extreme offensiveness and an accumulation of what is rotten or stinking.
    • a foul-smelling open sewer
nasty applies to what is actually foul or is repugnant to one expecting freshness, cleanliness, or sweetness.
    • it's a nasty job to clean up after a sick cat
In practice, nasty is often weakened to the point of being no more than a synonym of unpleasant or disagreeable.
    • had a nasty fall
    • his answer gave her a nasty shock
squalid adds to the idea of dirtiness and filth that of slovenly neglect.
    • squalid slums
All these terms are also applicable to moral uncleanness or baseness or obscenity. dirty then stresses meanness or despicableness
    • don't ask me to do your dirty work
, while filthy and foul describe disgusting obscenity or loathsome behavior
    • filthy street language
    • a foul story of lust and greed
, and nasty implies a peculiarly offensive unpleasantness.
    • a stand-up comedian known for nasty humor
Distinctively, squalid implies sordidness as well as baseness and dirtiness.
    • engaged in a series of squalid affairs

filthy

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of filthy

to a great degree
  • The invention made him filthy rich.
Synonyms of filthy

achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, real, really, right, roaring, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
Words Related to filthy

absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly

deeply, profoundly

exceptionally, notably, remarkably

considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially

appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly

abundantly, plentifully

astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally

excessively, obscenely, overmuch

amazingly, astonishingly, staggeringly
Phrases Synonymous with filthy

a lot, as all get-out, good and
Near Antonyms of filthy

meagerly, scantily

barely, hardly, just, marginally, minimally, scarcely
Antonyms of filthy

little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat

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