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

• filthily
• filthiness
• filthy casual
• filthy dirty
• filthy lucre
• filthy rich

 

Translations

covered with filth; very dirty

• Azerbaijani: kirli (az), çirk, çirkli, bulaşıq
• 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)
• Galician: cotroso, cotrento, cotrañento, porco (gl)
• German: dreckig (de), verdreckt (de), versifft (de) (slang)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥυπαρός (rhuparós)

• Hungarian: mocskos (hu), szennyes (hu)
• Irish: cáidheach
• Italian: sudicio (it), lercio (it)
• Japanese: 薄汚い (usugitanai)
• Kazakh: арам (aram)
• Korean: 누추 (ko) (nuchu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چەپەڵ (çepell), بۆگەن (bogen)

• Latin: sordidus, paedidus, squalidus, caenōsus
• Maori: manuheko, paruparu, poke (mi)
• Norman: cracheux
• Norwegian: møkkete

  Bokmål: ureinslig, urenslig

  Nynorsk: ureinsleg

• Old English: adeliht
• Ottoman Turkish: پیس (pis), مردار (murdar)
• 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)
• Tocharian B: kraketstse
• 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)
• Galician: porco (gl)
• German: dreckig (de), schmutzig (de)
• Irish: graosta, cáidheach
• Italian: osceno (it), sconcio (it), laido (it), indecente (it), immorale (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قۆڕ (qorr)

• Latin: sordidus
• Maori: poke (mi)
• Norwegian: slibrig (no)
• 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)

very unpleasant or disagreeable

• German: widerlich (de), schmutzig (de), unsauber (de)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To make very dirty; to saturate something with dirt.
   • 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.

2. (transitive) To cover in filth.
   • 2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen:

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

Translations

to make dirty throughout; to contaminate

• German: verschmutzen (de)

to cover in filth

• German: beschmutzen (de)