| 单词 | dirty |
| 释义 | dirty (once / 232 pages) 1adjv 2adj 3adj Things that aren't clean are dirty. The greasy pans in your sink, your muddy shoes, your smelly dog, your strange uncle's jokes — all of these things are dirty. When your car is dirty, you should to take it to the car wash, and when your hands are dirty, you need to be sure to wash them with soap and warm water. Some jobs are dirty, like mining, farming, and ditch digging, and the adjective dirty is sometimes used to mean "contaminating" or "poisonous," as with "dirty bombs." If you call your friend a "dirty rat," you mean to let him know you're disgusted with him. WORD FAMILYdirty: dirtied, dirtier, dirties, dirtiest, dirtily, dirtiness, dirtying+/dirt: dirts, dirty USAGE EXAMPLESHe means Dirty Mind, from 1980, on which Prince wears black bikini briefs and a flasher’s mac. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) Grey’s track on “Narrative of a City” isn’t nearly as dirty sounding as the new stuff, but that’s because he was working minus outside interference. Los Angeles Times(Nov 30, 2016) Doing the laundry meant lugging the dirty clothes to a laundromat two blocks away with the children in tow. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1 1adj soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime dirty unswept sidewalks a child in dirty overalls dirty slums piles of dirty dishes put his dirty feet on the clean sheet mining is a dirty job Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves Syn|Ant soiled, unclean Augean extremely filthy from long neglect bedraggled, draggledlimp and soiled as if dragged in the mud befouled, fouledmade dirty or foul begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchythickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot black, smuttysoiled with dirt or soot buggyinfested with bugs cobwebbycovered with cobwebs dirty-facedhaving a dirty face feculentfoul with waste matter filthy, foul, nastydisgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter flyblown, sordid, squalidfoul and run-down and repulsive greasy, oilysmeared or soiled with grease or oil lousyinfested with lice maculatespotted or blotched mucky, muddydirty and messy; covered with mud or muck rattydirty and infested with rats scummycovered with scum smudgysmeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination snot-nosed, snottydirty with nasal discharge sootycovered with or as if with soot travel-soiled, travel-stainedsoiled from travel uncleanlyhabitually unclean unsweptnot having been swept unwashednot cleaned with or as if with soap and water untidynot neat and tidy clean free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits cleanablecapable of being cleaned cleanlyhabitually clean dry-cleanedcleaned with chemical solvents fresh, unusednot yet used or soiled immaculate, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotlesscompletely neat and clean pristineimmaculately clean and unused scrubbedmade clean by scrubbing unsoiled, unspotted, unstainedwithout soil or spot or stain unsulliedspotlessly clean and fresh washed, water-washedclean by virtue of having been washed in water antisepticthoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms tidymarked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits 2adj spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination the air near the foundry was always dirty a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout Syn|Ant contaminating clean, uncontaminating not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination 3adj contaminated with infecting organisms dirty wounds Syn pestiferous infected, septic containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms 4adj (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear " dirty" is often used in combination dirty-green walls dirty-blonde hair Syn dingy, muddied, muddy impure combined with extraneous elements 5adj (of a manuscript) defaced with changes foul (or dirty) copy Syn foul, marked-up illegible (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible 6v make soiled, filthy, or dirty 2Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil clean, make clean make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from clean, clean house, housecleanclean and tidy up the house cleanbe cleanable foul make unclean contaminate, foul, pollutemake impure smearstain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance slimecover or stain with slime muddy, muddy updirty with mud splashsoil or stain with a splashed liquid mire, muck, muck up, mudsoil with mud, muck, or mire crocksoil with or as with crock blemish, spotmar or impair with a flaw infect, taintcontaminate with a disease or microorganism moilmoisten or soil besmirch, smirchsmear so as to make dirty or stained alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 1adj violating accepted standards or rules a dirty fighter Syn cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike unfair, unjust not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception 2adj unethical or dishonest dirty police officers Syn sordid corrupt lacking in integrity 3adj obtained illegally or by improper means dirty money Syn ill-gotten illegal prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules 4adj vile; despicable a dirty (or lousy) trick Syn filthy, lousy awful, nasty offensive or even (of persons) malicious 5adj expressing or revealing hostility or dislike dirty looks Syn hostile characterized by enmity or ill will 6adj (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency 3dirty words a dirty old man dirty books and movies boys telling dirty jokes has a dirty mouth Syn|Ant bawdy, off-color, ribald humorously vulgar blasphemous, blue, profanecharacterized by profanity or cursing dirty-mindedhaving lewd thoughts cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smuttycharacterized by obscenity foul-mouthed, foul-spokenusing foul or obscene language lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacioussuggestive of or tending to moral looseness scabrousdealing with salacious or indecent material scatologicaldealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions indecentoffensive to good taste especially in sexual matters clean, unobjectionable (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers antisepticdevoid of objectionable language decentconforming to conventions of sexual behavior adj unpleasantly stormy there's dirty weather in the offing Syn stormy (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion |
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