nasty : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nasty	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for nasty
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nasty adj 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 Synonym(s): nasty, awful Antonym(s): nice exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" Synonym(s): nasty, tight characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" Synonym(s): cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" Synonym(s): filthy, foul, nasty
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nasty \Nas"ty\, a. [Compar. {Nastier}; superl. {Nastiest}.] [For older nasky; cf. dial. Sw. naskug, nasket.] 1. Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous. 2. Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky. 3. Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy. Syn: {Nasty}, {Filthy}, {Foul}, {Dirty}. Usage: Anything nasty is usually wet or damp as well as filthy or dirty, and disgusts by its stickness 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.