smutty
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5.6
- adjective
- /ˈsmʌti/
:
sucio
- He wiped the smutty surface of the old table before setting down his cup.
Examples
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The guard leading Diana took her directly to the far side of the room, where the wall was made of thick Plexiglas so yellowed and scratched that looking through it seemed more like peering through a veil of smutty L.A. smog than anything else.
Fiction book (2000) -
After playing in the mud, the children returned home with smutty clothes.
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The windows were so smutty that I could hardly see outside.
Synonyms
401
1.0
Covered in dirt or soot so it looks dark
183
1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
23
4.6
Dark and dirty so it does not look bright
22
3.7
Covered in thick dirt that makes something look and feel dirty
20
9.7
Very dirty, smelly and unpleasant to touch or be near
6
3.2
Black or dark from fine dust left by fire
4
8.6
Dirty and unpleasant, like a place with sticky floors
2
4.1
Having soft dirty marks that make a surface look blurred
2
5.6
Covered with a thin dirty film on the surface
1
4.1
Having a face covered in dirt
1
7.7
Covered with sticky, dirty stuff
1
9.9
A room or place that is very messy and dirty
1
4.4
Covered with smudges or marks that make it look dirty
Very dirty and messy so it needs cleaning
A place or surface that is wet, muddy and looks dirty and messy
Looking unpleasant to eat because it seems old, dirty or spoiled
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word smutty comes from the old word smut, which meant 'soot' or 'dirt'. So something described as smutty is literally covered in black dirt or soot, like a face after a fire.