NASTY meaning: Disgusting, unpleasant, offensive in nature

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word nasty:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

nasty: Merriam-Webster.com
nasty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
nasty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-nasty, nasty: Collins English Dictionary
nasty: Vocabulary.com
Nasty, nasty: Wordnik
nasty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
-nasty, nasty: Wiktionary
-nasty, nasty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
nasty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
nasty: Infoplease Dictionary
Nasty, -nasty, nasty: Dictionary.com
nasty: Online Etymology Dictionary
nasty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Nasty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
nasty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
nasty: Rhymezone
nasty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
nasty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
nasty: Free Dictionary
nasty: Mnemonic Dictionary
nasty: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
nasty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

-nasty: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)

nasty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

nasty: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

NASTY: Acronym Finder
nasty: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
▸ adjective:  Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
▸ adjective:  Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
▸ adjective:  Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
▸ adjective:  Spiteful, unkind.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly UK) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
▸ adjective:  (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
▸ noun:  (informal) Something nasty.
▸ noun:  (euphemistic, slang, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.
▸ noun:  A video nasty.
▸ noun:  A hamlet in Great Munden parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3524).

Similar:

grotty, filthy, unclean, lousy, soiled, dirty, foul, smutty, vile, spiteful, more...

Opposite:

nice, pleasant, agreeable, pleasing

Phrases:

video nasty, a nasty piece of work, a nasty taste in mouth, a nasty taste in the mouth, cheap and nasty, more...

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