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Synonyms for smut

Most common

taint smutty

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Smutty — to stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt

smutty, stain, dirty, sully, soil, smooch, smouch US, tarnish, blacken, dirt, taint, blight, rust, smear, mildew, spot, must, blot, mold US, mould UK, besmirch, defile, smudge, darken

Noun

2. Pornography

pornography, erotica, porn informal, porno informal

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.

  2. n. 1

    Soot.

  3. n. 2

    A flake of ash or soot.

  4. n. 3

    Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.

Related words

Word family
smutfic smutty
Phrases
corn smut smut fungus

Forms

Plural
smuts → filths, obscenities, nastinesses, lewdnesses…
Past participle
smutted
e.g. smutted → smuttied, stained, dirtied, sullied…

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
smutfalling
taintsteady
smuttyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
must1, spot1, porn1, soil1, dirt1, mold1, rust1, blot1, soot1
5 letters
dirty2, stain1, smear1, mould1, filth1, porno2, sully2, taint1, crock1
6 letters
blight1, mildew2, darken2, smudge1, defile, smooch1, smutty2, smouch
7 letters
erotica4, tarnish2, blacken2
8 letters
impurity4, lewdness, besmirch, ribaldry3
9 letters
obscenity4, nastiness3, vulgarism
10 letters
balderdash3, smuttiness
11 letters
pornography4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dirty2 = 2 syllables).