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Definition: Nastiness |
NastinessNoun1. A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. 2. Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty. 3. The quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nastiness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: NastinessSynonyms: bitchiness (n), cattiness (n), filth (n), filthiness (n), foulness (n), spite (n), spitefulness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: niceness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nastiness |
| English words defined with "nastiness": beastliness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nastiness": Saur. (references) |
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| "Nastiness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nastiness" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "nastiness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | قبح (distort, hideousness, uglify, ugliness), وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), بذائة (scurrility), بذاءة (bawdiness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, sordidness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 恶劣 (Baleful, malevolent). (various references) | |
Czech | odpornost (odiousness, offensiveness, vileness). (various references) | |
French | saleté, obscénité, mauvaise odeur, méchanceté (nasty business), indécence, caractère désagréable. (various references) | |
German | Garstigkeit (horribleness, ugliness). (various references) | |
Greek | ρυπαρότητα (dinginess, dirtiness, filthiness, griminess, grubbiness, manginess, sloppiness, smudginess, smuttiness, squalidity, squalidness, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness), αθλιότησ (abjection, accursedness, misery, scrubbiness, seediness, trashiness, wretchedness), αθλιότητα (abjection, beggarliness, degradation, misery, scrubbiness, seediness, shabbiness, sordidness, squalor, trashiness, wretchedness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לכלוך (dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, filth, soiling, sordidness, squalor, stain), ז"ום (contamination, infection, pollution), כעור (abhorrent, disfigurement, eyesore, repulsive, uglification, ugliness, ugly), בזות (manginess, meanness, villainy, vulgarity, wretchedness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aljasság (baseness, blackguardism, foul deed, infamy, meanness, snottiness, squalor, turpitude, unprincipledness), undokság (odiousness), piszkosság (dirtiness, grubbiness, messiness, snottiness, sordidness), komiszság (cussedness). (various references) | |
Italian | sudiciume (dinginess, dirt, filth, filthiness, frowziness, grime, muck, raunchiness, scruffiness), sporcizia (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, frowziness, grime), disgustosit , cattivo gusto (flashiness). (various references) | |
Manx | trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, filth, garbage, junk, muck, muckiness, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash, trash rubbish), sallghar, granid (hideousness, ugliness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astinessnay.(various references) | |
Romanian | murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), imoralitate (amorality, immorality, licentiousness, ordure, profligacy). (various references) | |
Scottish | salachar (filth, impurity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svinjarija, gadost (beastliness, oath). (various references) | |
Spanish | suciedad (dirt, dirtiness, grubbiness, guiltiness, impurity, sordidness, uncleanliness), rencor (bad blood, grudge, ill feeling, needle, rancor, rancour, spite), peligro (danger, distress, eradication, hazard, jeopardy, peril, riskiness), lo malo (bad), lo horrible, lo asqueroso (sordidness), indecencia (bawdiness, indecency, obscenity, rudeness, vulgarity), grosería (broadness, coarseness, grossness, rudeness, scurrility, swearword, vulgarity), gravedad (g, gravity, heaviness, seriousness, severity), cosas horribles (foulness), asquerosidad (foulness). (various references) | |
Swedish | ruskighet (gruesomeness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความน่ารังเกียจ (nausea, noisomeness). (various references) | |
Turkish | pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), iğrençlik (being disgusting, enormity, foulness, frightfulness, heinousness, hideousness, loathsomeness, lousiness, nauseousness, obscenity, odiousness, odium, offensiveness, repulsiveness, ugliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính khó chịu tính cáu kỉnh, tính hiểm, tính giận dữ, tính dơ dáy, tính bẩn thỉu (piggery, piggishness, sordidness), tính ác (maleficence, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, unrighteousness), sự xấu xa ô trọc, sự thô tục (broadness), sự kinh tởm tính chất tục tĩu, sự dâm ô tính xấu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nastiness": nastinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Nastiness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansties, antiness, nasties, nestine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nastiness" (pronounced na"stēnus) |
| 6 | -s t ē n u s | tastiness. |
| 5 | -t ē n u s | emptiness, pettiness, scantiness. |
| 4 | -ē n u s | airworthiness, arbitrariness, bagginess, cleanliness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, contrariness, coziness, craziness, creditworthiness, creepiness, deadliness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, edginess, friendliness, frothiness, funniness, ghastliness, hairiness, happiness, holiness, laziness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, nosiness, orderliness, queasiness, raciness, readiness, riskiness, roominess, rowdiness, shakiness, silliness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, solitariness, steadiness, stinginess, sturdiness, tardiness, timeliness, trustworthiness, ugliness, uneasiness, unhappiness, unwieldiness, wariness, weariness, wimpiness, worldliness, worthiness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, Conus, coolness, correctness, creativeness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, effectiveness, elusiveness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, fullness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, handedness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, quickness, quietness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, robustness, roughness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, truthfulness, unconsciousness, unfairness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: insanest, sestinas, stanines. | |
-2 letters: assents, entasis, inanest, nasties, sanseis, sennits, sestina, siennas, siestas, stanine, tansies, tassies, tisanes. | |
-3 letters: anenst, anises, assent, assets, assist, inanes, innate, insane, insets, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sasins, satins, sennas, sennit, sienna, siesta, stains, stanes, stases, stasis, steins, tasses, tassie, tenias, tennis, tineas, tisane. | |
-4 letters: anent, anise, antes, antis, asses. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: scantiness, sensations. | |
+2 letters: assignments, distantness, faintnesses, inaptnesses, instantness, lastingness, nastinesses, nattinesses, saintliness, tawninesses. | |
+3 letters: antibusiness, assentations, daintinesses, faintishness, inessentials, innatenesses, intactnesses, jauntinesses, nativenesses, pliantnesses, quaintnesses, scantinesses, unsteadiness. | |
+4 letters: ancientnesses, animatenesses, astonishments, disinfestants, dispensations, distantnesses, essentialness, expansionists, franticnesses, inexactnesses, initialnesses, insatiateness, instantnesses, lastingnesses, naughtinesses, nonessentials, nonresistants, obstinateness, piquantnesses, reassignments, saintlinesses, sensitisation, sustentations, tenaciousness, transaminases, transgressing, transgression, valiantnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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