[syn: filthy, foul, nasty]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nasty \Nas"ty\ (n[.a]s"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Nastier
(n[.a]s"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Nastiest.] [For older nasky;
cf. dial. Sw. naskug, nasket.]
1. Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled;
disgusting; nauseous.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious;
wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.
[1913 Webster]
3. Characterized by obscenity; indecent; indelicate; gross;
filthy.
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4. Vicious; offensively ill-tempered; insultingly mean;
spiteful; as, a nasty disposition.
[PJC]
5. Difficult to deal with; troublesome; as, he fell of his
bike and got a nasty bruise on his knee. [slang]
[PJC]
Syn: Nasty, Filthy, Foul, Dirty.
Usage: Anything nasty is usually wet or damp as well as
filthy or dirty, and disgusts by its stickiness or
odor; but filthy and foul imply that a thing is filled
or covered with offensive matter, while dirty
describes it as defiled or sullied with dirt of any
kind; as, filthy clothing, foul vapors, etc.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nasty
adj 1: 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 [syn: nasty,
awful] [ant: nice]
2: exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty
problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight
situation" [syn: nasty, tight]
3: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul
language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: cruddy, filthy, foul,
nasty, smutty]
4: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
"as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a
room" [syn: filthy, foul, nasty]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "nasty":
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable, abusive, acute,
annoying, arrant, atrocious, awful, awkward, bad, bad-tempered,
baleful, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, bitchy, black, blameworthy, blue, boorish,
brackish, brutal, caddish, cantankerous, churlish, cloying, coarse,
contemptible, crabbed, cranky, crappy, critical, crotchety, crude,
cruel, cussed, dangerous, deplorable, despicable, detestable,
difficult, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful,
egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid,
filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed,
foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, gloppy, grievous, gross,
grubby, gunky, harmful, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid,
icky, ignoble, ill-bred, ill-natured, ill-tempered, improper,
impure, inconsiderate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, infamous,
iniquitous, insensitive, invidious, irascible, ithyphallic,
lamentable, lewd, licentious, loathsome, lousy, loutish, louty,
lurid, maggoty, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign,
malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
monstrous, mucky, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious,
noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene,
odious, off color, offensive, ordurous, ornery, outrageous,
overripe, painful, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, pornographic,
puky, putrid, rancid, rank, raunchy, rebarbative, regrettable,
repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald,
risque, rotten, rude, sad, salacious, scabby, scandalous,
scatological, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous,
scurvy, serious, severe, shabby, shameful, shitty, shocking,
shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy,
smoking-room, smutty, soily, sordid, spiteful, spoiled, sposhy,
squalid, stinking, suggestive, sultry, surly, tactless, terrible,
too bad, ugly, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, unfeminine, ungenteel,
ungentle, ungentlemanly, unladylike, unpleasant, unprintable,
unrefined, unrepeatable, unsavory, unseemly, unsolicitous,
untoward, vicious, vile, villainous, vomity, vulgar, weevily,
wicked, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy, yucky