nasty
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
offensive or even (of persons) malicious
in a nasty mood
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Sense 2 adjective
exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
a nasty problem
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- difficult similar to
Sense 3 adjective
characterized by obscenity
had a filthy mouth
Related & opposite
- pornography derivation
- cattiness derivation
- filthiness derivation
- smuttiness derivation
- vulgarism derivation
- dirty similar to
Sense 4 adjective
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
as filthy as a pigsty
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | unpleasant |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | nice |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | nastiness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | nastiness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | awfulness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cattiness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | filthy |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | grotty |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | mean |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | difficult |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | pornography |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cattiness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | filthiness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | smuttiness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vulgarism |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | dirty |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | nastiness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | soil |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | dirty |