different between slutty vs naughty

English

Etymology

From slut +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?ti/

  Rhymes: -?ti

Adjective

slutty (comparative sluttier, superlative sluttiest)

1. Of or resembling a slut.

   The makeup, high heels and short skirt made her look so slutty.

Synonyms

• whorey, whorish

Translations

Anagrams

• Tlusty, stulty, suttly

English

Etymology

From Middle English naughty, nau?ty, nau?ti, na?ti, equivalent to naught +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?ti/, /?n?ti/
• Homophone: knotty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??ti

Adjective

naughty (comparative naughtier, superlative naughtiest)

1. Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). [from 17th c.]

   Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.

2. Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky. [from 19th c.]

   I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.

   If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!

3. (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible. [from 15th c.]
   • 1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades

     my prone??e to ?inne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell

   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i^[1]

     […] How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

     Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.

4. (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard. [16th-19th c.]

Alternative forms

• noughty (archaic or obsolete)

Synonyms

• (immoral, sexually provocative): dirty
• (mischievous): mischievous

Antonyms

• (immoral; cheeky): nice

Derived terms

• naughtily
• naughtiness
• naughty bit

Translations