shitty

English

Etymology

From shit +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪti/
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪti/, [ˈʃɪɾi]

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

Adjective

shitty (comparative shittier, superlative shittiest)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.

   The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.

   I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.

   • 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground, Spin, page 101,

     It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.

   • 2006, Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story, 2009, unnumbered page,

     The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.

   • 2011, Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires, page 134,

     Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.

2. (US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
3. (British, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.

   Don't get shitty at me!

4. (vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
5. (informal, vulgar) Of low quality or standard; inferior; not up to par, or failing one's expectations
   • 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep: A Novel - Page 157:

     “She's a shitty teacher, but Ault was in a bind.” But she hadn't been a shitty teacher when she'd been hired. She'd never taught before. And who was Aspeth to decide she was shitty now? She was still inexperienced.

Synonyms

• (all senses): crappy (less intense), poopy (childish)
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (high): See Thesaurus:stoned
• (poor quality): shithouse (UK, AU, & NZ)

Derived terms

• shittiness

Related terms

• See shit

Translations

unpleasant as shit

• Catalan: merdós, de merda
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: aĉa (eo)
• Finnish: paska (fi)
• French: merdique (fr), dégueulasse (fr), de merde (fr)
• Galician: merdento
• German: beschissen (de), Scheiß- (de)
• Greek: σκατένιος (el) (skaténios)
• Italian: merdoso (it), di merda
• Japanese: くだらない (ja) (kudaranai)
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• Persian: آشغال (fa) (âšğâl)
• Polish: gówniany (pl), chujowy (pl)
• Portuguese: de merda, merdoso (pt)
• Romanian: de căcat
• Russian: сра́ный (ru) (srányj), хуёвый (ru) (xujóvyj), херо́вый (ru) (xeróvyj), говённый (ru) (govjónnyj), дерьмо́вый (ru) (derʹmóvyj)
• Scots: keechie
• Spanish: mierdoso, de mierda
• Ukrainian: гівня́ний (hivnjányj), гімня́ний (himnjányj), хуйо́вий (xujóvyj), сра́ний (srányj)

drunk — see drunk

high — see high

Of such poor quality as to resemble shit

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schijt- (nl), stront- (nl)
• Esperanto: aĉa (eo), merda (eo)
• Finnish: paska (fi)
• French: merdique (fr), - de merde (fr)
• Galician: de merda, merdento
• German: Scheiß- (de), beschissen (de)
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• Greek: του κώλου (tou kólou), για πέταμα (gia pétama)
• Polish: gówniany (pl), chujowy (pl)
• Romanian: de căcat (ro)
• Russian: сра́ный (ru) (srányj), хуёвый (ru) (xujóvyj), херо́вый (ru) (xeróvyj), говённый (ru) (govjónnyj), дерьмо́вый (ru) (derʹmóvyj), говня́ный (ru) (govnjányj)

Anagrams

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