Filthy

English

Adjective

Filthy (comparative filthier, superlative filthiest)

1. Covered with filth; very dirty.
2. Obscene or offensive.
3. Very unpleasant or disagreeable.

Antonyms

• (covered with filth): pristine
• (obscene): holy, venerable

Synonyms

• (covered with filth): sleazy, slimy, grimy
• (obscene): gruesome

Derived terms

• filthy rich
• filthily

Adverbs for Filthy

grossly; coarsely; unspeakably; incredibly; grotesquely; horribly; abominably; grimily; foully; beastly; offensively; slovenly; squalidly; unpardonably; inexcusably; unreasonably; needlessly; hideously; unwarrantably; piteously; pitiably; deplorably; outlandishly; wretchedly; singularly; exceptionally; extraordinarily.

Thesaurus

Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, bedraggled, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, coarse, contemptible, corrupt, crappy, cruddy, defiled, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, dirty-minded, disgusting, disheveled, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fecal, feculent, fetid, flagrant, flyblown, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, gloppy, grievous, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, gunky, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, icky, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, ithyphallic, lamentable, lascivious, lewd, licentious, loathsome, lousy, low, lurid, maggoty, malodorous, mean, mephitic, miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ordurous, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, polluted, pornographic, puky, purulent, putrid, rank, raunchy, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rotten, sad, salacious, scabby, scandalous, scatological, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty, shocking, shoddy, slabby, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, sloshy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, sordid, sposhy, squalid, stained, suggestive, sultry, taboo, tainted, terrible, too bad, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unprintable, unrepeatable, unwashed, verminous, vile, villainous, vomity, vulgar, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy

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Etymology

filth

Translations

covered with filth; very dirty

Catalan: impur (ca) Dutch: smerig (nl), vuil (nl) Finnish: likainen (fi), saastainen (fi), kuppainen (fi) French: crasseux (fr) German: dreckig (de), verdreckt (de), versaut (de) Hungarian: mocskos (hu), szennyes (hu) Italian: sudicio (it) m., lercio (it) Kurdish: چه‌په‌ڵ, بۆگه‌ن

Latin: paedidus (la) Norwegian: møkkete (no) Portuguese: imundo (pt) m., imunda (pt) f. Scots: keechie, kichie Scottish Gaelic: caca (gd) Spanish: sucio (es) m., mugriento (es) m., mugroso (es) m., inmundo (es) m. Telugu: మురికి (muriki) Turkish: pis (tr), kirli (tr)

obscene or offensive

Finnish: likainen (fi), saastainen (fi) German: obszön (de), dreckig (de), versaut (de) Italian: osceno (it) m., sconcio (it) m., laido (it), indecente (it), immorale (it) Kurdish: قۆڕ

Norwegian: slibrig (no) Spanish: sucio (es) m., obsceno (es) m., guarro (es) m., (Mexico) pelado (es) m. Turkish: müstehcen (tr), açık saçık (tr), ayıp (tr)

Quotations

• (obscene) 1987: “Filthy smirking Pat Robertson has come in second in the Iowa Republican caucuses.” -Final Diary, Michael Grumley