Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

Noun

Adverb

The word "dirty" can be used as adjective, adjective, verb, noun and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

bright clean clean clean sportsmanlike

Typical Location

bed ground

Derived Terms

Dirty Creek Dirty Harry Dirty Shirley Dirty Thirties Dirty War air one's dirty laundry in public air one's dirty linen in public bedirty dirtily dirtiness dirty Gertie dirty Sanchez dirty blond dirty blonde dirty bomb dirty bulk dirty bulking dirty business dirty chai dirty coal dirty code dirty dairying dirty dance dirty dancing dirty down dirty down dirty dozens dirty feed dirty finger dirty float dirty girl dirty grease dirty ice cream dirty joke dirty kitchen dirty laundry dirty linen dirty look dirty magazine dirty martini dirty mind dirty minded dirty money dirty mouth dirty old man dirty pillow dirty pint dirty pool dirty power dirty protest dirty realism dirty rice dirty rush dirty snowball dirty soda dirty talk dirty thunderstorm dirty trick dirty washing dirty weather dirty weekend dirty word dirty work dirty wound dirty-handed dirtybadwrong dirtyish do someone dirty do the dirty on down and dirty fight dirty filthy dirty get one's hands dirty get the dirty water off one's chest nondirty off like a dirty shirt play dirty quick and dirty quick-and-dirty ride dirty talk dirty un-dirty undirty wash one's dirty laundry in public wash one's dirty linen in public

Derived From

dirt

Etymologically Related To

drite

Context

computing slang

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

alter change modify spoil

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

beblood bedraggle begrease bemire bemoil bemud bepiss beslime beslurry besoot bespatter bespew clart crap oneself mire misguggle muddy poison pollute shit oneself slop smutty taint thumb

Manner Of

change

Not Has Property

clean

Related Terms

unclean worsen

Related Terms

corrupt data debase dirt dishonor dishonourable disk distort grime illegal improper indecent memory obscene soiled stain tarnish unclean unpleasant untidy

Similar Terms

Augean augean awful bawdy bedraggled bedraggled befouled befouled begrimed begrimed black blasphemous blasphemous blue buggy buggy cobwebby cobwebby corrupt cruddy cruddy dingy dirty faced dirty minded dirty-faced dirty-minded draggled feculent feculent filthy filthy flyblown foul foul mouthed foul-mouthed foul-spoken fouled greasy greasy grimy grubby grungy hostile hostile illegal illegible impure indecent infected lewd lousy lousy maculate maculate mucky mucky muddy nasty obscene off color off-color oily profane ratty ratty raunchy ribald salacious salacious scabrous scabrous scatological scatological scummy scummy septic smudgy smudgy smutty smutty snot nosed snot-nosed snotty sooty sooty sordid squalid squalid stormy stormy travel stained travel-soiled travel-stained uncleanly uncleanly unfair unjust unswept unswept untidy unwashed unwashed

Synonym Network

base cheating deceptively dingy filthy ill gotten indecent marked up muddied pestiferous shoddy soil sully unsportsmanlike

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.