filthy

English

Etymology

From Middle English filthy, filthi, equivalent to filth +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪlθi/

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Adjective

filthy (comparative filthier, superlative filthiest)

1. Covered with filth; very dirty.
2. Obscene or offensive.
   • 1987, Michael Grumley, Final Diary:

     Filthy smirking Pat Robertson has come in second in the Iowa Republican caucuses.

3. Very unpleasant or disagreeable.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• filthily
• filthy casual
• filthy dirty

• filthy lucre
• filthy rich

Translations

covered with filth; very dirty

• Bulgarian: мръсен (bg) (mrǎsen), кирлив (bg) (kirliv)
• Catalan: impur (ca)
• Danish: snavset, beskidt
• Dutch: smerig (nl), vuil (nl)
• Esperanto: malpurega
• Finnish: likainen (fi), saastainen (fi), kuppainen (fi)
• French: crasseux (fr)
• German: dreckig (de), verdreckt (de), versaut (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥυπαρός (rhuparós)

• Hungarian: mocskos (hu), szennyes (hu)
• Italian: sudicio (it), lercio (it)
• Korean: 누추 (ko) (nuchu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چەپەڵ‎ (ku) (çepell), بۆگەن‎ (ku) (bogen)

• Latin: sordidus, paedidus, squalidus
• Maori: manuheko, paruparu, poke (mi)

• Norman: cracheux
• Norwegian: møkkete

  Bokmål: ureinslig, urenslig

  Nynorsk: ureinsleg

• Old English: adeliht
• Persian: پلید‎ (fa) (palid)
• Polabian: x́örĕ
• Polish: brudny (pl)
• Portuguese: imundo (pt)
• Quechua: saqra
• Russian: гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj), запа́чканный (ru) (zapáčkannyj), замы́зганный (ru) (zamýzgannyj)
• Scots: keechie, kichie
• Scottish Gaelic: caca
• Spanish: sucio (es), mugriento (es), mugroso, inmundo (es), cochambroso
• Swedish: smutsig (sv)
• Telugu: మురికి (te) (muriki)
• Turkish: pis (tr), kirli (tr)

obscene or offensive

• Bulgarian: циничен (bg) (ciničen), непристоен (bg) (nepristoen)
• Catalan: obscè (ca), groller (ca)
• Danish: svinsk, sjofel
• Finnish: likainen (fi), saastainen (fi)
• German: obszön (de), dreckig (de), versaut (de)
• Irish: graosta
• Italian: osceno (it), sconcio (it), laido (it), indecente (it), immorale (it)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: قۆڕ‎ (ku) (qorr)

• Latin: sordidus

• Maori: poke (mi)
• Norwegian: slibrig
• Polish: sprośny (pl)
• Portuguese: sujo (pt)
• Russian: гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj), непристо́йный (ru) (nepristójnyj), неприли́чный (ru) (neprilíčnyj), по́шлый (ru) (póšlyj), вульга́рный (ru) (vulʹgárnyj), непотре́бный (ru) (nepotrébnyj), ме́рзкий (ru) (mérzkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: drabasda, drabasdach
• Spanish: sucio (es), obsceno (es), guarro (es), (Mexico) pelado (es)
• Swedish: snuskig (sv)
• Turkish: müstehcen (tr), açık saçık (tr), ayıp (tr)

Verb

filthy (third-person singular simple present filthies, present participle filthying, simple past and past participle filthied)

1. (transitive) To make very dirty; to cover in filth.
   • 2007, Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia:

     In the years following World War Two, Americans cut down vast forests, built thousands of factories, assembled millions of atmospherically toxic automobiles, and filthied the water throughout North America.

   • 2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen

     He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.