Englishnasty
adjective
1 there was a nasty smell in the kitchen:
unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, atrocious, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unsavory, unappetizing, off-putting, uninviting, dirty, filthy, squalid;
noxious, evil-smelling, foul-smelling, smelly, stinking, rank, rancid, fetid, malodorous, acrid;
informal ghastly, horrid, gruesome, putrid, diabolical, yucky, sick-making, godawful, gross, icky, stinky;
British, informal beastly, grotty, whiffy, pongy, niffy;
North American, informal lousy, skanky, funky;
Australian, informal on the nose;
literary noisome, mephitic;
archaic disgustful, loathly;
rare miasmal, olid.
▷antonyms nice, delightful, lovely, pleasant.
2 the weather turned nasty:
unpleasant, disagreeable, foul, filthy, inclement;
wet, rainy, stormy, cold, foggy, blustery, squally.
▷antonyms fine, sunny.
3 sometimes, she can be really nasty:
unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humored, bad-tempered, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive;
informal bitchy, catty;
vulgar slang shitty.
▷antonyms charming, agreeable, nice, likable.
4 her father's had a nasty accident | she's got a nasty cut on her head:
serious, dangerous, bad, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, critical, severe, grave, alarming, worrying, concerning;
painful, ugly.
▷antonyms slight, minor.
5 she had a nasty habit of staring at him:
annoying, irritating, infuriating, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant, unfortunate, maddening, exasperating, irksome, vexing, vexatious;
informal aggravating, pesky.
6 they got hold of spray cans and wrote nasty things on the back of the headstones:
obscene, indecent, offensive, improper, indelicate, crude, rude, off color, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, vile, gross, disgusting, pornographic, smutty, salacious, risqué, lewd, lascivious, licentious, X-rated;
scatological, profane;
informal blue, sick.
□ nasty piece of work
he was a nasty piece of work and got his just rewards:
wretch;
informal beast, toad, pig, rat, creep, louse, snake, skunk, weasel, lowlife, scumbag, heel, stinkpot, stinker, no-good, son of a bitch, SOB;
British, informal blighter, bad lot;
Scottish, informal scrote;
Irish, informal spalpeen;
North American, informal rat fink, fink, schmuck;
Australian, informal dingo;
New Zealand, informal kuri;
West Indian, informal rass;
derogatory bastard, dog, dirty dog;
derogatory , informal swine;
informal , dated hound, cad;
British, informal , dated rotter, bounder;
vulgar slang shit, prick;
British, vulgar slang sod;
archaic blackguard, dastard, knave, varlet, whoreson.