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Synonyms for soiled

  • adjective

Most common

filthy unclean dingy grubby smeary

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Adjective

1. Dirty — dirty, defiled, stained

dirty, unclean, dingy, muddy, filthy, grubby, foul, bedraggled, smutty, lousy, maculate, draggled, impure, sordid, squalid, cruddy

Other

spotted, smeary

Antonyms

immaculate

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Dirty, defiled, stained.

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Soiled or Spoiled?

A soiled garment may be cleansed by washing; a spoiled garment is beyond cleansing or repair.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • filthy Every seat was so filthy, I stood the whole way.
  • unclean What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.
  • dingy Lacking proper lighting, Tammy's room was depressingly dingy.
  • grubby Keep your grubby paws off my stuff!
  • smeary You can't see a thing through these smeary windows.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
soiledsteady
filthyrising
uncleanrising
dingyrising
grubbyrising
smearyrising

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

By length

4 letters
foul1
5 letters
dirty2, muddy2, lousy2, dingy2
6 letters
filthy2, impure2, sordid2, grubby2, smutty2, cruddy2, smeary
7 letters
spotted2, unclean2, squalid2
8 letters
maculate, draggled
10 letters
bedraggled3

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