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Definition: Soiled |
SoiledAdjective1. Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: SoiledSynonyms: dirty (adj), unclean (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: clean (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He believes the culprits might be the very people who, uh, soiled your rug, and you are in a unique position to confirm or disconfirm that suspicion (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) So? Widen it! I'm soiled enough already just being around you two. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) One soiled. (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis) A bird's is speckled and soiled. (Ran; writing credit: Masato Ide; Akira Kurosawa) | |
Lyrics | I hid my soiled hands behind my back (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel) | |
Clever | A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She reached behind one of the boxes that had served as chairs and brought out a stationery box, old and soiled and cracked at the corners |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Change soiled underwear as soon as possible. (references) | |
Do not allow children to play in areas that are soiled with pet or other animal feces. (references) | ||
Infection can also occur by inhalation of tiny particles soiled with rodent urine or saliva (aerosol transmission). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Soiled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 59.26% of the time. "Soiled" is used about 135 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 59.26% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 25.19% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.81% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 135 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "soiled": be soiled ♦ soiled dove. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "soiled": child-soiled, life-soiled, light-soiled, pigeon-soiled, red-soiled, shop-soiled, thin-soiled, travel-soiled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "soiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vuil (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Albanian | papastër (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملطخ (spotted, stained), مدنس (defiled, profane, sacrilegious). (various references) | |
Catalan | brut (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Chinese | 褸 (tattered), 弄脏 (Blotted, Blotting, blurred, Blurring, fouled, Fouling, smudged, Smudging, soiling, stained, staining). (various references) | |
Danish | snavset (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Dutch | vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, unclean, waste, windfall), vies (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean), smerig (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unclean), onrein (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean), morsig (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malpura (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skitin (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Finnish | likainen (dirty, filthy, impure, unclean). (various references) | |
French | souillé, sale, barbouillai, barbouillée, barbouillâmes. (various references) | |
Frisian | fiis (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
German | verschmutzte. (various references) | |
Greek | λερωμένοσ (bedraggled, blurry). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | papastër (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלוכלך (dirty, dungy, foul, grimy, grubby, messy, nasty, smutty, sordid, unclean), מזו"ם (contaminated, dirty, filthy, infected, nasty, polluted, septic), מטו ף (dungy, filthy, grubby, mucky, nasty, slimy, slob, sloppy, sordid, squalid), מסואב (contaminated, dirty, filthy, polluted). (various references) | |
Hungarian | piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cemong (dirty, scratched), cemar (besmirched, blackened, dirty, filthe), celekeh (blemish). (various references) | |
Irish | salach (dirty, filthy, unclean). (various references) | |
Italian | sporco (dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grubby, mucky, nasty, scruff, smutty), macchiato (dappled, patchy, smudgy, spotted, spotty). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手沢 (worn or soiled with handling), 手"れ (becoming worn or soiled with handling, being old-fashioned), 'み洗い (washing only the soiled part), 摘み洗い (washing only the soiled part). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅたく (worn or soiled with handling), つまみあらい (washing only the soiled part), てずれ (becoming worn or soiled with handling, being old-fashioned). (various references) | |
Korean | "럽히" (fouled, smudged, spotted). (various references) | |
Manx | sollit (contaminated, defiled, dirted), broigh (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skitten (dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sushi (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean), fis (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oiledsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed). (various references) | |
Romanian | spurcat (base, dirty, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, vile), terfelit, jegos (dirty, filthy). (various references) | |
Russian | пачкать запачканный. (various references) | |
Scottish | salach (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamazan (coaly, smudgy), nađubren (dung, fertilized). (various references) | |
Spanish | sucio (crummy, dingy, dirty, feculent, filthy, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, unclean, unfairly, unwashed). (various references) | |
Sranan | morsu (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean), fisti (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean), doti (dirty, earth, fertilizer, filthy, land, manure, nasty, soil, unclean). (various references) | |
Swedish | smutsig (crummy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, sordid, squalid, unclean). (various references) | |
Tagalog | marumí (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Turkish | kirli (bedraggled, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, grimy, grubby, impure, smudgy, spotted, squalid, unclean, venose, venous), kírlí (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Welsh | brwnt (dirty, filthy, foul, harsh, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
Yucatec | eek' (dirty, filthy, nasty, unclean). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "soiled": assoiled, subsoiled, topsoiled, unsoiled. (additional references) | |
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"Soiled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doiled, escoillee, osiel, scoaled, soild, soile, soilen, soleid, solide, solie, soliod, soule, soyed, Soziale, spiled, stoiled, Stoilov, swield. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "soiled" (pronounced soy"ld) |
| 3 | -oy" l d | boiled, broiled, coiled, embroiled, foiled, oiled, recoiled, roiled, spoiled, toiled, uncoiled, unspoiled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oldies, siloed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: deils, delis, diols, doles, eidos, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, oiled, oldie, sidle, slide, sloid, soldi, soled, solei, solid. | |
-2 letters: deil, deli, dels, diel, dies, diol, does, dole, dols, dose, elds, ides, idle, idol, isle, leis, lido, lids, lied, lies, lode, lose, odes, oils, olds, oles, side, sild, silo, sled, slid, sloe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bolides, despoil, dildoes, diploes, dipoles, doilies, dollies, doolies, doylies, idolise, indoles, isolead, keloids, meloids, midsole, oilseed, soldier, solider, spoiled. | |
+2 letters: assoiled, bloodies, bodiless, cheloids, collides, darioles, deltoids, delusion, demolish, depolish, despoils, dhoolies, diastole, diazoles, diploses, disbowel, disclose, dislodge, displode, dissolve, eidolons, emulsoid, euploids, godliest, idolised, idoliser, idolises, idolizes, implodes, inclosed, insouled, isolated, isoleads, leporids, lesioned, lionised, lopsided, melodias, melodies, melodise, melodist, midsoles, mislodge, modelist, moldiest, obelised, oilseeds, oldwives, pistoled, ploidies, polished, poolside, scleroid, sepaloid, sidelong, sodalite, soldiers, soldiery, solenoid, solidest, solitude, stolider, toluides, unsoiled. | |
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