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grim·y

(grī′mē)

adj. grim·i·er, grim·i·est

Covered or smudged with grime. See Synonyms at dirty.

grim′i·ly adv.

grim′i·ness n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

grim•y

(ˈgraɪ mi)

adj. grim•i•er, grim•i•est.

covered with grime; dirty.

[1605–15]

grim′i•ly, adv.

grim′i•ness, n.

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Adj.

grimy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

begrimed, dingy, grungy, grubby, raunchy

dirty, soiled, unclean - 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"

grimy

adjective dirty, polluted, filthy, soiled, foul, grubby, sooty, unclean, grotty (slang), smutty, scuzzy (slang), begrimed, skanky (slang) a grimy industrial city

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

grimy

adjective

Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:

black, dirty, filthy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly.

Translations

قَذِر، وَسِخ

špinavý

beskidt

schmierig schmutzig

encrassé

óhreinn, skítugur

sudicio fangoso lercio

svartsmusket

pis

肮脏的

grimy

[ˈgraɪmɪ] ADJ (grimier (compar) (grimiest (superl))) → mugriento, sucio

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

grimy

[ˈgraɪmi] adj [house, town] → sale; [hands] → crasseux/euse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

grimy

adj → schmutzig, dreckig; clothes also → verdreckt; (= greasy) → schmierig; (= blackened with soot) city, building → verrußt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

grimy

[ˈgraɪmɪ] adj → sudicio/a, sporco/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

grime

(graim) noun

dirt which is difficult to remove.

ˈgrimy adjective

grimy buildings.

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