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Adjectives (15)

adj. exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"

nasty

adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

foul, filthy

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

foul, rank, vulgar, smutty

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

foul, dirty, unpleasant, filthy, abominable, beastly, vile

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

Fuzzynyms (138)

offensive

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

repellent, repellant, rebarbative

adj. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

malevolent, malicious

adj. having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

baleful, baneful

adj. deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"

brute, beastly, bestial, brutish, cannibalic

adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

unappetizing, distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury

adj. not pleasing in odor or taste

repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative

adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

flat, insipid, bland, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless

adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

tasteless

adj. lacking flavor

foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

bristly, prickly, snappish, splenetic, waspish

adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

repulsive, obscene, detestable, abhorrent, repugnant

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

abominable, execrable, detestable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

evil, vicious, depraved

adj. having the nature of vice

poisonous, venomous, vicious

adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

ugly

adj. displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

ugly, surly

adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

unfeeling, unkind, pitiless

adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings

sluttish, blowsy, blowzy, frowsy, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly

adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women

adulterate, debased, adulterated

adj. mixed with impurities

dirty, infected, contaminated

adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

defiled, impure

adj. having the purity corrupted; made unclean; "the defiled Temple"

contaminated, polluted

adj. rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"

gross, earthy, coarse

adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

lewd, lustful, lascivious, libidinous

adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"

indecent

adj. offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"

obscene

adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead

pornographic

adj. designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"

overabundant, plethoric, rife

adj. excessively abundant

grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

jet, pitchy, coal-black, jet-black, pitch-black, sooty

adj. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

repellent, repellant, distasteful, disgusting, disgustful, loathly, loathsome, revolting, yucky, rebarbative

blue, gamy, gamey, naughty, juicy, spicy, racy, risque

adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"

immodest

adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

offensive, unpleasant

adj. disagreeable to the sense

offensive

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

abominable, execrable, detestable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

hateful

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

Synonyms (81)

ambitious, challenging, demanding

adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical

adj. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

tricky, catchy

adj. having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

thorny, delicate, ticklish

adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

trying, serious, distressful

adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"

formidable, tall

adj. impressively difficult; "a tall order"

herculean, Herculean

adj. extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"

troublesome, unruly, fractious

adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"

hard-fought

adj. requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"

hellish

adj. very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"

rough, tough, rocky

adj. full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"

vexed

adj. causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times"

unpleasant

adj. disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"

Augean

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

bedraggled, draggled

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

befouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

bespattered, spattered, splashed

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

buggy

adj. infested with bugs

dusty

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

fecal, feculent, faecal

adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces

flyblown, squalid, sordid

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

lousy

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

muddy, mucky

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

scummy

adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

snotty, snot-nosed

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

travel-soiled, travel-stained

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

unwashed

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

blue, bawdy, ribald, off-color, off-colour

adj. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"

dirty-minded

adj. having lewd thoughts

foul-mouthed, foul-spoken

adj. using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"

lewd, indecent, obscene, salacious

adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"

scabrous

adj. dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"

scatological

adj. dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature"

severe, intemperate

adj. (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones"

rainy

adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"

Antonyms (9)

nice

adj. pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "nice manners"; "a nice dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today"

pleasant

adj. affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

pleasant

adj. pleasant in manner or behavior; "I didn`t enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"

kind

adj. having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior; "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter"

agreeable, good natured

adj. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"

clean

adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"

clean

adj. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"

decent

adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana

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