grimy
Coated with soot
Grimy means covered with grime—ingrained dirt or soot that's hard to remove.
A grimy window obscures the view.
Grimy hands need serious scrubbing.
The word suggests accumulated filth rather than fresh mud: a grimy factory, grimy streets.
Figuratively, grimy can mean morally sordid: the grimy details of the scandal.
Foul, accumulated matter
- gunkViscous unpleasant substance
- muckFilthy wet dirt
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- smudgeUnclear dirty mark
stain · grease · crud · residue · sludge · mud · dust · dirt
Industrial production facility
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
smokestacks · warehouse · rust belt · foundry · mill · pollution · exhaust · oil
Dirty, degraded living conditions
- slumImpoverished urban district
- rundownQuick overview of facts
- decrepitWorn by age
- seedyRundown and disreputable
shabby · neglected · dilapidated · ramshackle · tenement · hovel · flophouse · slumlord
Realm of the departed
- back alleyPassage behind buildings
- dive barRundown, cheap drinking spot
- smokyFilled with combustion haze
- shadowyObscured by darkness
seedy · hardboiled · crime · detective · urban · nighttime · neon · corruption
Pacific Northwest metropolis
- flannelSoft napped cloth
- NirvanaRelease from earthly existence
- Pearl JamSeattle grunge pioneers
- SoundgardenSeattle grunge rock band
punk · alternative · distortion · subculture · Kurt Cobain · Eddie Vedder · Chris Cornell · mosh pit
filth
Foul, accumulated matter
smudge · stain · grease · crud · residue · sludge · mud · dust · dirt · grubby
factory
Industrial production facility
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
machinery · smokestacks · warehouse · rust belt · foundry · mill · pollution · exhaust · oil · grease
squalor
Dirty, degraded living conditions
seedy · shabby · neglected · dilapidated · ramshackle · tenement · hovel · flophouse · slumlord · blight
underworld
Realm of the departed
- back alleyPassage behind buildings
- dive barRundown, cheap drinking spot
- smokyFilled with combustion haze
shadowy · seedy · hardboiled · crime · detective · urban · nighttime · neon · corruption · underbelly
Seattle
Pacific Northwest metropolis
Soundgarden · punk · alternative · distortion · subculture · Kurt Cobain · Eddie Vedder · Chris Cornell · mosh pit · underground
- cleaningcleaning, clean, housekeeping, clean up, daily cleaning
- cleanlinessclean, cleanliness, clean up, dirty, neatness
- filthdirt, dirty, filthy, muck, crud
- texturessmoothness, smooth, soft, rough, roughness
- uglyugly, hideous, unsightly, grotesque, repulsive
- dirtyingsoiling, dirtying, staining, smearing, smudging
- dirt and grime
- grime covered
- industrial grimePollution from manufacturing
grime, grimiest, grimmer, griminess, begrimed, grimmest, grimed, grimier, degrime