different between depraved vs filthy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?vd/

Verb

depraved

1. simple past tense and past participle of deprave

Adjective

depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
   • 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)

     There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

Derived terms

• depraved-heart murder
• depravedly
• depravedness

Related terms

• deprave
• depravity

Translations

Anagrams

• pervaded

English

Etymology

From Middle English filthy, filthi, equivalent to filth +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?i/

Adjective

filthy (comparative filthier, superlative filthiest)

1. Covered with filth; very dirty.
2. Obscene or offensive.
3. Very unpleasant or disagreeable.

Synonyms

• (covered with filth): sleazy, slimy, grimy, horry
• (obscene): gruesome, smutty

Antonyms

• (covered with filth): pristine
• (obscene): holy, venerable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

filthy (third-person singular simple present filthies, present participle filthying, simple past and past participle filthied)

1. (transitive) To make very dirty; to cover in filth.
   • 2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen

     He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.