Definitions for filth
fɪlθfilth

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. filth, crud, skanknoun

   any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant

2. dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grungenoun

   the state of being covered with unclean things

3. filth, filthiness, foulness, nastinessnoun

   a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

4. obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty wordnoun

   an offensive or indecent word or phrase

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. filthnoun

   dirt

2. filthnoun

   smut

3. filthnoun

   the police

4. filthnoun

   weeds growing on pasture land

   Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

5. Etymology: From filth, from fylþ, from fūliþō, from fūlaz, from pū-, equivalent to. More at foul.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FILTH FILFTHnoun

   Etymology: filð, Saxon.

   1. Dirt; nastiness; any thing that soils or fouls.

   When we in our viciousness grow hard,
   The wise gods seal our eyes;
   In our own filth drop our clear judgments. William Shakespeare.

   Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
   Filths favour but themselves. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Neither may you trust waters that taste sweet; for they are commonly found in rising grounds of great cities, which must needs take in a great deal of filth. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   How perfect then is man? From head to foot
   Defil’d with filth, and rotten at the root. George Sandys.

   Though perhaps among the rout
   He wildly flings his filth about;
   He still has gratitude and sap’ence,
   To spare the folks that give him ha’pence. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Corruption; grossness; pollution.

   Such do likewise exceedingly dispose us to piety and religion, by purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights. John Tillotson, Sermons.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Filthnoun

   foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness

2. Filthnoun

   anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution

3. Etymology: [OE. filthe, fule, AS. fl, fr. fl foul; akin to OHG. flida. See Foul, and cf. File.]

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1. Filth

   "Filth" is a single released by Dir En Grey on September 12, 2001.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Filth

   filth, n. foul matter: anything that defiles, physically or morally.—adv. Filth′ily.—n. Filth′iness.—adj. Filth′y, foul: unclean: impure. [A.S. fýldh—fúl, foul.]

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1. filth

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Matched Categories

1. • Dirtiness
   • Unsanitariness
   • Waste

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of filth in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of filth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of filth in a Sentence

1. Richard:

   The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

2. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924:

   Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

3. Virginia Emery:

   They are considered filth in the food system.

4. Mohammed Habib:

   Deeds are like diamonds, sins are like filth & forgiveness is a blessing that's why we see roses grow beautiful from dirt.

5. Kevork Altounian:

   In a world of devils and filth... smell the daffodils...

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