Nasty

Definition: Nasty

Nasty

Adjective

1. 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.

2. Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation".

3. (informal) thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having".

4. Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes".

5. Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nasty" was first used: sometime around 1390. (references)

Note: Nasty \Nas"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Nastier; superlative Nastiest.]. (references)

Slang

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Nasty

Cheapness

Adjective: cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive, unexpensive; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas cher; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny;discounted.

Pain

Nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful; fulsome; vile; (bad); hideous.

Uncleanness

Nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid.

Unsavoriness

Offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening. Verb: nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant .

Crosswords: Nasty

Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Why didn't you give me none of that nasty little hoochie-woochie you usually throw at me (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

She's as nasty as you are (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

Ugh. Nasty things (The Big Sleep; writing credit: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.)

That is one nasty women (Go Fish; writing credit: Adam Herz)

Thinkin' nasty thoughts (Nasty; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

The way you make good for all the nasty tricks you pull (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Looks like we're in for nasty weather (BAD MOON RISING; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

C'mon, gimme that funk, that sweet, that nasty, that gushi stuff (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

Nasty stuff look up i took her (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

The Nasty Rabbit (1964)

Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)

Nasty Quacks (1945)

Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 2: A Nasty Jar1 (1927)

Ambrose's Nasty Temper (1915)

Nasty (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

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Books

• Dirty Dozen : 12 Nasty Fighting Techniques For Any Self-Defense Situation (reference)

• Nasty Men (reference)

• No More Nasty (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Luke's Freakshow, Vol. 6: Something Nasty (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nasty Little Thoughts (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Typhoon Saomai Gets Nasty. Credit: NASA.

Bering Sea Conductivity-Temperature-Depth rosette A cold nasty day in the Bering Sea Off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Survey launch leaving the PIONEER for a day's work Looks like nasty working conditions today. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A night view from the bridge of huge waves and spray during a nasty Gulf of Alaska storm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, (center, front) debarks following a visit to Nasty at Haakonsvern, Norway, 11 May 1960. With Adm. Burke is Vice Admiral Erling Hostvedt, Commander in Chief, Royal Norwegian Navy. Credit: NAVY.

It is a nasty cut that you have, my friend, said the Colonel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't pay no attention to the nasty sneerin' little snipe, Henry! : it's three ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock

Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits

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Health

Some children may have diarrhea for a while, and babies may develop a nasty diaper rash. Eventually the stool will become more solid and the child will need to go to the bathroom less often. (references)

Political Economy

Zimbabwe

In the aftermath of that nasty campaign, the MDC has gained strength, benefiting from the continued economic decline and intensified intimidation of the population by war veterans and ZANU-PF supporters. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "nasty": a nasty dog ♦ a nasty smell ♦ a nasty trick ♦ be in a nasty pickle ♦ be nasty ♦ be nasty about ♦ cheap and nasty ♦ get rid of nasty smells ♦ have a nasty mind ♦ make nasty remarks ♦ nasty business ♦ nasty comments ♦ nasty language ♦ nasty question ♦ nasty remark ♦ nasty sea ♦ nasty smell ♦ nasty spill ♦ nasty story ♦ nasty taste ♦ nasty toad ♦ nasty treatment ♦ nasty weather ♦ nasty words ♦ that was a nasty thing to say ♦ turn nasty ♦ video nasty ♦ with a nasty taste. Additional references.

Beginning with "nasty": nasty-looking, nasty-minded, nasty-pasty, nasty-piece-of-work, nasty-sounding, nasty-tasting, nasty-tempered, nasty-tongued.

Ending with "nasty": guitar-nasty, not-so-nasty, potentially-nasty.

Afrikaans

sleg (bad, badly, miserable, poor), lelik (ugly), kwaai (bad, miserable, poor), immoreel (abandoned), vuil (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), onaangenaam (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible), beroerd (abject, bad, dismal, meager, miserable, poor, wretched), antipatiek, afsigtelik (dismal, dreary, horrible), aaklig (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, hideous, horrible). (various references)

Albanian

serioz (bad, crying, deep, demure, dress, earnest, grave, heavy, reliable, serious, solemn, weighty), papastër (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), keq (awry, bad, badly, downhill, foul, miserable, poor, poorly), i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, high risk, malign, parlous, perilous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe), i qelbur (dead, dirty, fetid, foetid, mangy, noisome, putrid, stinking), i poshtër (beggarly, blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scoundrelly, scurvy, sneaking, sneaky), i papëlqyeshëm (bitter, disagreeable, distasteful, harsh, indecent, invidious, undesirable), i pakëndshëm (awkward, bad, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, objectionable, repellent, ugly, unattractive, uncongenial, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i lig (bad, basilisk, catty, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, felon, godless, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nefarious, perverse, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏مقرف (detestable, disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, repulsive, sickening), ‏مغث (brackish, disgusting, mawkish, nauseating, nauseous, queasy, sickening, sickly), ‏معقد (busy, complicate, complicated, convoluted, deep, difficult, doctrinarian, entangled, inextricable, intricacy, intricate, invalid, involute, knotted, knotty, perplexing, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tangly, tricky), ‏مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous, wicked), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏ردئ الطبع (atrabilious, petulant), ‏شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous), ‏بذيء (dirty, filthy, improper, impure, indecent, naughty, ribald, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

труден за преодоляване, гаден (abominable, creepy, filthy, loathsome, nameless, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), опасен за преодоляване, неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), неприличен (bawdy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, naughty, off color, off colour, ribald, salacious, shameful, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), много неприятен, заплашителен (forbidding, fulminating, minacious, minatory), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious, virulent), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Catalan

brut (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Chinese 

讨厌 (Nuisance, Obnoxious), 討厭 (disgusting, to hate, troublesome), 污穢 (filthy, sordid). (various references)

Czech

odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile). (various references)

Danish

snavset (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), slet (bad, miserable, poor), ond (bad, miserable, poor), grim (ugly), dårlig (bad, miserable, poor). (various references)

Dutch

naar (about, according as, according to, along, as, bleak, by, dismal, dreary, for, ghastly, grisly, horrible, ill, long for, sick, to, toward, towards, untranslated, unwell, yearn), kwalijk (hardly, miserable, poor, scarcely), hatelijk (malicious, mischievous, vicious), hinderlýk (troublesome), immoreel (abandoned, abandonedly), infaam (abject, base, low, vile), krenkend (abusive), kwaad (abuse, angry, bad, cross, miserable, poor), 10.boosaardig, kwalýk (bad, barely, hardly, miserable, only just, poor, scarcely), gemeen (abandoned, abject, base, low, vile), laag (abject, base, deep, layer, low, vile), laaghartig (abject, base, low, vile), lastig (difficult, hard, hardly, inconvenient, not easily, troublesome, with difficulty), lelýk (rotten, ugly), lelijk (rotten, ugly), misselýk (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nauseous), morsig (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), kwaadaardig (malicious, mischievous, vicious), afzichtelijk (horrible), 11.gemeen, 12.gemeen, 13.onaangenaam, afgrýselýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible), afkeer inboezemend, afschuwelýk (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible), hatelýk (malicious, mischievous, vicious), afzichtelýk (dismal, dreary, horrible), grievend (abusive, deplorable, pitiable, sad), akelig (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible), antipathiek, beledigend (abusive, insulting, offensive, opprobrious), beroerd (bad, miserable, poor), boosaardig (malicious, mischievous, vicious), foeilelýk (dismal, dreary, horrible), foeilelijk (horrible), afschuwelijk (abhorrent, alien, dreary, gruesome, hideous), vervelend (bleak, boring, bothersome, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, stodgy, tiresome, weary), onaangenaam (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible), te kwader, te kwader trouw (malicious, mischievous, vicious), trouw (adherence, faithful, loyal, upright), vals (false, malicious, mischievous, vicious), verdrietelýk (bleak, deplorable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, pitiable, sad), verdrietelijk (horrible, sad), storend (troublesome), verstorend (troublesome), snood (criminal, malicious, mischievous, vicious), vies (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), vuig (abject, base, low, vile), vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall). (various references)

Esperanto

naŭza (abhorrant, abominable, alien, disgusting, nauseous), malmorala (abandoned), ĝena (troublesome), antipatia, fia, fripona, malagrabla (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible), malaminda, malbela (ugly), malbelega (dismal, dreary, horrible), malbona (bad, miserable, poor), abomena (dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, horrible), malica (malicious, mischievous, vicious), turpa (ugly), malnobla (abject, base, low, vile), malplaĉa, malpura (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), malpurega, malsimpatia, ofenda (abusive), pika, sordida (dirty, foul), malhonesta. (various references)

Faeroese

vamlisligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nauseous), skitin (dirty, filthy, foul, soiled, unclean), ringur (bad, miserable, poor, ring), ljótur (ugly), andstyggiligur (abhorrent, abominable, alien, disgusting, nauseous, ugly). (various references)

Farsi 

نامطبوع (Hard, Rancid, Ungraceful, Ungracious, Unhandsome, Unpleasant), کثیف (Amiss, Dirty, Draggy, Grimy, Impure, Lousy, Messy, Mussy, Sloppy, Sordid, Squawk), کریه (Detestable, Offensive, Ugly, Unsightly), تندوزننده , زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile). (various references)

Finnish

ilkeä (bad, evil, loathsome, malicious, mischievous, naughty, vicious, wicked). (various references)

French

vilain (naughty, naughty boy), sale, perfide, mauvais, méchant (naughty, naughty child), horrible, désagréable, dégoûtant (nauseous), affreux. (various references)

Frisian

lilk (angry, cross, ugly), glûpsk (insidious, malicious, mischievous, vicious), fiis (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), aaklik (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible), ûnhuerich (dismal, dreary, horrible, quite, very, very much), ûnhuer (dismal, dreary, horrible). (various references)

German

garstig (dismal, dreary, ghastly, haggish, hideous, horrible, ugly, unlovely), unangenehm (awkward, disagreeable, disagreeably, disconcerting, displeasing, embarrassing, grating, invidious, mawkish, objectionably, painful, tough, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, uncomfortably, uncongenial, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasantly, unpleasing, unwelcome, upsetting), scheußlich (abominable, atrocious, atrociously, awful, beastly, dreadful, execrable, hideous, nastily, putrid, revolting, ungodly, vile), widerlich (abhorrently, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, lousy, lurid, nauseating, nauseatingly, nauseous, noisome, noisomely, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, rancid, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinkingly, ugly, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, yukky), hässlich (hateful, hideous, mean, nastily, putrid, toady, uglily, ugly, unsightly), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked), boshaft (catty, fiendish, impish, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maliciously, mischievous, mischievously, poisonous, shrewish, spiteful, spitefully, vicious, wicked), böse (angry, bad, baddie, baleful, balefully, black, black-hearted, cross, crossly, dark, evil, evil person, ferocious, harm, mad, malign, miserable, nastily, naughty, poor, sinister, sore, unholy, venomous, vicious, villain, villainous, wicked, wicked person), übel (bad, bad (worse, badly, disreputable, evil, evilly, foul, foully, ill, illness, malady, malignancy, nauseated, nauseous, noxious, objectionable, offensive, offensively, queasy, rank, sick, ugly, ulcer, undesirable, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

κακοήθησ (malicious, vile, wicked), ρυπαρόσ (grimy, grubby, slobbery, smutty, sordid, squalid), βρωμερόσ (fetid, filthy, foul, scummy, squalid, stench), μοχθηρόσ (malicious, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, vicious, virulent), επικίνδυνοσ (dangerous, desperate, hazardous, perilous, risky, unsafe, wild cat), άσχημοσ γριόσ, άσχημοσ (black, homely, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unlovely, unshightly, unsightly), απειλητικόσ (menacing, minatory, threatening), απαίσιος (appaling, atrocious, awful, despicable, execrable, foul, horrible), αηδιαστικόσ (disgusting, distasteful, loathful, loathsome, nauseous, queasy, repulsive, sicking), δυσάρεστοσ (disagreeable, displeasing, noisome, objectionable, ungracious, unpleasant, unsatisfactory). (various references)

Hawaiian

papastër (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), keq (bad, badly, miserable, poor). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכלך (dirty, dungy, foul, grimy, grubby, messy, smutty, soiled, sordid, unclean), מזוהם (contaminated, dirty, filthy, infected, polluted, septic, soiled), מגעיל (disgusting, horrid, nauseous, repulsive, revolting, slimy), מבחיל (nauseous, odious, queasy, revolting, sickening, sickly), מטונף (dungy, filthy, grubby, mucky, slimy, slob, sloppy, soiled, sordid, squalid), נבזי (dirty, lubricious, mean), נבזה (cad, contemptible, despicable, despised, mean, mean-spirited, measly, ornery, scamp, shameful, sordid, villain, worm, wretched). (various references)

Hungarian

csúnya (dirty, disagreeable, hideous, inelegant, ugly, unlovely), utálatos (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, detestable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, execrable, ghastly, groaty, grotty, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrible, loathful, loathsome, monstrous, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, poisonous, rank), piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), komisz (cussed, ornery, shabby, villainous, wicked). (various references)

Icelandic

yfirgefinn (abandoned), vondur (bad, miserable, poor), viðbjóðslegur (dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, horrible), slæmur (bad, miserable, poor), ljótur (ugly), illur (bad, miserable, poor), hræðilegur (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, terrible), óviðkunnanlegur, óheiðarlegur, óþægilegur (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible). (various references)

Indonesian

buruk (bad, corrupt, decayed, dissonant, foul, old, putrid, ugly, worn out). (various references)

Irish

olc (bad, miserable, poor), dona (bad, miserable, poor, unlucky; bad). (various references)

Italian

sgradevole (bad, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unsightly), schifoso (disgusting, dismal, dreadful, dreary, foul, horrible, lousy, poisonous, revolting, rotten, verminous), cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolic, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, naughty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked), spiacevole (bleak, disconcerting, dismal, displeasing, dreary, embarassing, evil, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, miserable, regrettable, sticky, uncomfortable, unpleasant), mostruoso (abominable, awful, dismal, dreary, enormous, hideous, horrible, Mega, monster, monstrous, rotten, undelightful, vast), disonesto (bent, crooked, dishonest, foul, knavish, unfrank). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腹穢い (black-hearted), 腹汚い (black-hearted), 短絡的 , 最低 (disgusting, horrible, least, lowest, worst, yuck!), うわの空 (absent-mindedness, being fed up with, boring, dirty, er...., inattention, let me see, rat-tailed anchovy, ray, stringray, tedious, uh huh, vulgar, well, yeah, yes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たんらくてき, さいてい (arbitration, award, decision, disgusting, horrible, least, lowest, ruling, second time, worst, yuck!), はらぎたない (black-hearted), えげつない (dirty, vulgar). (various references)

Korean 

불쾌한 (Obnoxious, unpleasant). (various references)

Lombard

gram (bad, miserable, poor). (various references)

Malay

jelek (ugly), buruk (addled, bad, rotten, ugly). (various references)

Manx

sallagh (dingy, filthy, foul, grubby, impure, piggish, squalid), graney (bad-looking, dirty, dirty as trick, execrable, gruesome, hideous, ill-favoured, lousy, objectionable, obnoxious, revolting, rotten, ugly, uncomely), broigh (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), breinn (blue, blue as film, foetid, foul, loathsome, malodorus, offensive, pestilential, putrid, rancid, rotten, smelly). (various references)

Norwegian

stygg (foul, homely, ugly), heslig (hideous, ugly), dårlig (bad, miserable, poor). (various references)

Papiamen

sushi (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), malu (bad, badly, ill, miserable, poor, sick, unwell), malo (bad, ill, miserable, poor, sick, unwell), mahoso (ugly), mahos (ugly), fis (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), feu (ugly), feroso (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, terrible), feros (abysmal, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, terrible), desonesto, desagradabel (bleak, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible), baho (abject, base, low, vile), antipátiko, abominabel (abhorrent, abject, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, disdainful, disgusting, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nauseous, terrible). (various references)

Pig Latin

astynay.(various references)

Polish

zły (bad, miserable, poor), złośliwy (malicious, mischievous, vicious), krępujący (troublesome), brzydki (ugly), żenujący (troublesome). (various references)

Portuguese

mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), antipático (antipathetic, antipathetical, uncongenial, unlikeable, unlovable, unpleasant). (various references)

Romanian

nepoliticos (abrupt, audacious, bluntly, coarsely, discourteous, disobligingly, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, naughty, obscenely, unceremonious, uncivil), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), urît (ugly), scârbos (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, bloody, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, fulsome, ghastly, loathsome, loathsomely, nauseous, repugnant, repulsive, sickening, unpleasant, verminous, vile), råu (bad, miserable, poor), obscen (bawdy, dirty, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, indelicate, lewd, lickerish, obscene, obscenely, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, stingy, trivial), josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grovelling, grubby, infamous, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly, vile), imoral (corrupt, gay, immoral, impure, lecherous, licentious, loose, outrageous, scrofulous, sinful, wicked), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nauseous, obscene, odious, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile). (various references)

Russian 

противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, mucky, obnoxious, poisonous, unlovely). (various references)

Scottish

salach (dirty, filthy, foul, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, harsh, offensive, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, ungracious, unkind, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury), zlovoljan (bad tempered, ill tempered, ill-humored, morose, peeved, peevish, sullen), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), gnusan (abominable, damnable, detestable, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, noisome, sickening), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile). (various references)

Spanish

feo (bad-looking, dirty, foul, homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, tacky, ugly, ungraceful, unsightly), sucio (crummy, dingy, dirty, feculent, filthy, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, soiled, unclean, unfairly, unwashed), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, naughty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), lúgubre (bleak, dark, dismal, dreary, forbidding, gash, gaunt, ghastly, grisly, horrible, lugubrious, mournful), horroroso (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, wicked), deshonesto (crooked, dishonest, dishonesty, immodest, improper, indecent, sharp, undecent), astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references)

Sranan

takru (ugly), ogri (bad, miserable, poor), morsu (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), kway (bad, miserable, poor), fisti (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean), doti (dirty, earth, fertilizer, filthy, land, manure, soil, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Swahili

-baya (bad, miserable, poor), baya (bad, miserable, poor). (various references)

Swedish

otäck (beastly, filthy, hidecous, hideous, horrid, ugly, unearthly, wicked, wickedness), obehaglig (awkward, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, offensive, queasy, sticky, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpleasant). (various references)

Tagalog

pángit (ugly), masamâ (bad, miserable, poor), marumí (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Thai

น่าคลื่นไส้ (nauseously), สิ่งที่น่ารังเกียจ (gross-out), อันตราย (injury). (various references)

Turkish

kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful). (various references)

Turkmen 

nejis. (various references)

Ukrainian

неприємний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), поганий (bad, bum, cheesy, deplorable, doggerel, ill, inferior, naught, naughty, objectionable, one horse, punk, rubbishy, shady, sour, third rate, unlovely, weak), бридкий (abominable, antipathetic, antipathetical, bad, damned, hideous, loathful, noisome, offensive, sickening), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), злобний (nocuous, rancorous, sardonian, sardonic, sardonical, spiteful, spleenful, wicked), загрозливий (dangerous, denunciative, denunciatory, forbidding, fulminating, grave, menacing, minatory, ominous, presageful, threatening, thundery, ugly), паскудний (abject, bawdy, cheesy, obscene, scald, trashy, vile), недоброзичливий (blackhearted, carping, cattish, cursed, envious, evil-minded, ill-affected, malevolent), роздратований (aggravated, angry, annoyed, bad tempered, disgruntled, edgy, exasperated, huffy, irritated, peeved, querulous, shirty, vexed), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, serious, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked), невдалий (abortive, awry, bad, failed, ineffectual, infelicitous, lame, naughty, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wide), нудотний (emetic, luscious, mawkish, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, qualmish, queasy, routine, sickish, sickly, treacly), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), кепський (bad, dying, miserable, moldy, mouldy, naught, naughty, poor), мерзенний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, atrocious, caitiff, ghoulish, hangdog, hateful, heinous, nefandous, nefarious, niddering, odious, sordid, villainous, wretched). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vố điếng người, thô tục; xấu xa, làm buồn nôn tục tĩu, làm bực mình cáu kỉnh, khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), bẩn thỉu; dơ dáy; kinh tởm, ô trọc; dâm ô xấu. (various references)

Welsh

drwg (bad, evil, frolic, frolicsome, harm, hurt, miserable, naughty, petulant, poor, wicked), cas (aversion, disagreeable, enemy, foe, hateful, hater, hatred, odious), brwnt (dirty, filthy, foul, harsh, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Yucatec

k'as (bad, miserable, poor), eek' (dirty, filthy, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Zulu

-bolile (bad, miserable, poor), -bi (bad, miserable, poor). (various references)

acidus, amarus, malus, phaulius, turpe, turpem, turpis, turpissima, turpissimum. (various references)

nestig. (various references)

nastre. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "nasty": dynasty, epinasty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nasty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anast, Ansteys, Anstie, Anstix, Anstry, ansty, ansy, asty, Inasti, nact, nanty, Nashta, nashy, nasky, nast, Nasta, Naste, nastia, nastic, nasto, Nastya, Nasuta, nati, nats, nautty, nauty, nazt, nazti, nesty, nhsta, Nissly, nisy, nowty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: antsy, tansy.

-1 letter: ants, nays, stay, tans.

-2 letters: ant, any, ays, nay, sat, say, sty, syn, tan, tas.

-3 letters: an, as, at, ay, na, ta, ya.

+1 letter: astony, dynast, sanity, satiny, scanty, shanty, slanty, syntax, yentas.

+2 letters: amnesty, analyst, aroynts, astheny, byzants, dynasts, dynasty, fantasy, gymnast, nastily, saintly, scantly, shantey, snatchy, standby, staying, stygian, tawneys, tympans, tyrants, unhasty, yantras.

+3 letters: absently, analysts, ancestry, andesyte, anolytes, antonyms, asyndeta, athanasy, bayonets, chanteys, cyanates, cyanites, dynamist, dynastic, dystonia, epinasty, gymnasts, hydrants, insanity, instancy, kyanites, lanosity, mainstay, mesnalty, nasality, nystatin, payments, phantasy, phytanes, ptyalins, salinity, sanctify, sanctity, sanitary, scantily, secantly, shanteys, sovranty, stanchly, standbys, stannary, sternway, stingray, stramony, straying, synaptic, syncytia, syntagma, syntaxes, tachyons, tanistry, tanyards, tardyons, unsafety, unstably, unstayed, unsteady, yatagans, yeasting.