germy
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4.5
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɜrmi/
- Informal
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sucio
- After visiting the playground, the kids had germy hands, so we made them wash before lunch.
Examples
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Many public places are germy, so it's important to wash your hands frequently.
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Totally healthy mother, totally healthy baby, until about a day after the birth when someone handled her with germy hands and put her in the NICU for two weeks.
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I mean, even a little poke isn't as bad as like, germy poke, right?
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The planet is our home, but not ours only, and we'd be wise to tread a little more lightly within this wonderful, germy world.
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The conundrum of a germy soap dispenser—and the fact that such marketing apparently works on my fellow humans—makes me very cranky.
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I avoided touching that germy handle at the bathroom door.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not clean or covered with dirt
280
2.3
Very unpleasant and making you feel sick or disgusted
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1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
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3.7
Covered in thick dirt that makes something look and feel dirty
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1.4
Dirty and needing to be cleaned
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3.7
Not clean and likely to cause illness
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1.3
Dirty and covered in dust, food, or grease
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4.8
Not clean and likely to make people sick
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7.7
Covered with sticky, dirty stuff
Antonyms
How Germy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Germy comes from the root germ, which once meant 'seed' or 'sprout' and so suggests a very small thing that can grow. The ending -y means 'full of', so germy means 'full of germs' or dirty.