FILTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filth mean? 

• FILTH (noun)
  The noun FILTH has 4 senses:

1. any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant

2. the state of being covered with unclean things

3. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

4. an offensive or indecent word or phrase

  Familiarity information: FILTH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

crud; filth; skank

Hypernyms ("filth" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being covered with unclean things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

dirt; filth; grease; grime; grunge; soil; stain

Hypernyms ("filth" is a kind of...):

dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)

Derivation:

filthy (disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

filth; filthiness; foulness; nastiness

Hypernyms ("filth" is a kind of...):

unsanitariness (a state that is not conducive to health)

Derivation:

filthy (disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An offensive or indecent word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism

Hypernyms ("filth" is a kind of...):

profanity (vulgar or irreverent speech or action)

Domain member usage:

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup (slang for sexual intercourse)

cock; dick; pecker; prick; putz; shaft; tool (obscene terms for penis)

bull; bullshit; crap; dogshit; horseshit; Irish bull; shit (obscene words for unacceptable behavior)

chickenshit (a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear)

asshole; bastard; cocksucker; dickhead; mother fucker; motherfucker; prick; shit; SOB; son of a bitch; whoreson (insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous)

pee; peeing; piss; pissing (informal terms for urination)

bugger all; Fanny Adams; fuck all; sweet Fanny Adams (little or nothing at all)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filth"):

bawdry; bawdy (lewd or obscene talk or writing)

scatology (a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions))

Derivation:

filthy (characterized by obscenity)

 Context examples 

The action of removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from.

(Clean, NCI Thesaurus)

The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The filth of his cooking was indescribable; and, as he cooked everything that was eaten aboard, I was compelled to select what I ate with great circumspection, choosing from the least dirty of his concoctions.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)