Synonyms for cruddy
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Lousy — crummy, lousy, worthless
lousy, bad, shoddy, low-rent informal, second-rate, low-grade, valueless, tenth-rate, ticky-tacky US, drecky, suckworthy informal, tripy, wretched, inferior, crap vulgar slang, two-bit slang US, ass vulgar slang, triobolar dated, crappy vulgar informal US CA, naughty dated
2. Nasty — full of crud
nasty, filthy, dirty, mucky informal, foul, smutty, begrimed, grubby, squalid, sordid, soiled, unclean
3. Irksome — annoying, irritating
Definitions
- adj. 1
Full of crud.
- adj. 2
Crummy, lousy, worthless.
Because I didn't study for my test, I feel like I'm gonna make a pretty cruddy grade.
- adj. 3
Annoying, irritating.
Some children's cartoons sure have cruddy theme songs.
Related words
- Word family
- crusty
Example sentences
- lousy Back in the 1990s, Algeria had lousy infrastructure.
- shoddy I've never seen this shoddy of an excuse in my life.
- nasty The child had a nasty cough because he had a cold.
- filthy Every seat was so filthy, I stood the whole way.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1, ass1
- 4 letters
- crap1, foul1
- 5 letters
- dirty2, nasty2, lousy2, mucky2, tripy
- 6 letters
- filthy2, crappy2, shoddy2, sordid2, soiled1, grubby2, smutty2, drecky
- 7 letters
- naughty2, unclean2, squalid2, irksome2
- 8 letters
- inferior4, wretched2, begrimed
- 9 letters
- vexatious3, valueless3, triobolar
- 10 letters
- bothersome3, suckworthy
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dirty2 = 2 syllables).