Usually means: Covered with dirt or grime.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word grimy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. grimy: Merriam-Webster
  2. grimy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grimy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grimy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grimy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grimy, grimy: Wordnik
  7. grimy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grimy: Wiktionary
  9. grimy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grimy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grimy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grimy, grimy: Dictionary.com
  13. grimy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Grimy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. grimy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. grimy: Rhymezone
  17. grimy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. grimy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. grimy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. grimy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. grimy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. grimy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grimy: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grimy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Stained or covered with grime.
▸ adjective:  (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
▸ adjective:  (slang) Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.
▸ adjective:  (slang, hip-hop, of a beat or song) Darkly atmospheric; having affinities with the style of the East Coast hip hop of the 90s, especially that of New York.

Similar:
begrimed, soiled, dirty, unclean, grubby, grungy, dingy, engrimed, grimey, stainful, more...

Opposite:
clean, spotless, pristine, tidy

Types:
greasy, filthy, dirty, dusty, muddy, crusty, slimy, sticky, more...

Phrases:
Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     charcoal,     muddy brown,     olive green,     rust, more...



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Similar:
begrimed, soiled, dirty, unclean, grubby, grungy, dingy, engrimed, grimey, stainful, more...

Opposite:
clean, spotless, pristine, tidy

Types:
greasy, filthy, dirty, dusty, muddy, crusty, slimy, sticky, more...

Phrases:
Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     charcoal,     muddy brown,     olive green,     rust, more...



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