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Synonyms of filthy in English:

filthy

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adjective

1‘the room was filthy’

SYNONYMS

dirty, mucky, grimy, muddy, murky, slimy, unclean

foul, squalid, sordid, shabby, sleazy, nasty, soiled, sullied, scummy

polluted, contaminated, unhygienic, unsanitary

rotten, defiled, decaying, putrid, putrefied, smelly, fetid, faecal

informal cruddy, grungy, yucky

British informal grotty

Northern Irish informal bogging

literary befouled, besmirched, begrimed

rare feculent

ANTONYMS

clean

2‘his face was filthy’

SYNONYMS

unwashed, unclean, dirty, grimy, dirt-encrusted, smeared, smeary, grubby, muddy, mucky, black, blackened, begrimed, stained, unkempt

ANTONYMS

clean, scrubbed

3‘she told filthy jokes’

SYNONYMS

obscene, indecent, dirty, smutty, rude, improper, corrupt, coarse, bawdy, unrefined, indelicate, vulgar, lewd, racy, raw, off colour, earthy, ribald, risqué, licentious

vile, depraved, foul, impure, offensive, prurient, salacious, pornographic, explicit, foul-mouthed

informal blue, raunchy, near the bone, near the knuckle, nudge-nudge, porn, porno, X-rated

euphemistic adult

ANTONYMS

clean, polite

4‘you filthy brute!’

SYNONYMS

despicable, contemptible, nasty, low, base, mean, vile, disgusting, unpleasant, obnoxious, wretched, shabby, sordid

informal dirty, dirty rotten, low-down, no-good, beastly, lousy

5‘he was in a filthy mood’

SYNONYMS

bad, foul, unpleasant, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, aggressive, cross, fractious, peevish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered

informal snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused

British informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty

North American informal cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded

informal, dated waxy, miffy

ANTONYMS

good