What are some opposite words for nasty?

Antonyms for nasty
ˈnæs tinasty

This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term nasty.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. nasty

    Antonyms:
    nice, pleasant, sweet, savory, agreeable, pure

    Synonyms:
    fool, offensive, odious, disagreeable, indelicate, impure, gross, unclean, obscene

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. nasty, awfuladjective

    offensive or even (of persons) malicious

    "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

    Antonyms:
    clean, pleasant, nice, good, easy, unobjectionable

    Synonyms:
    frightful, dread(a), cruddy, smutty, tight, terrible, amazing, horrific, filthy, awed, fearful, abominable, unspeakable, horrendous, awful, foul, atrocious, tremendous, dreaded, awe-inspiring, awing, dreadful, direful, awesome, frightening, dire, painful, fearsome

  2. nasty, tightadjective

    exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

    "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"

    Antonyms:
    good, unobjectionable, nice, clean, easy, pleasant

    Synonyms:
    filthy, close, pissed, blind drunk, besotted, awful, slopped, rigorous, mingy, blotto, squiffy, foul, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, tight, soused, compressed, cruddy, sozzled, taut, plastered, miserly, smutty, stiff, stringent, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, mean, soaked, loaded, wet

  3. cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smuttyadjective

    characterized by obscenity

    "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

    Antonyms:
    pleasant, unobjectionable, clean, nice, easy, good

    Synonyms:
    awful, filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, foul, lousy, repellent, dirty, distasteful, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, black, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), tight, foul-smelling, loathsome, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, unsporting, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, fouled, repellant

  4. filthy, foul, nastyadjective

    disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter

    "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

    Antonyms:
    unobjectionable, pleasant, clean, easy, nice, good

    Synonyms:
    awful, filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, foul, lousy, repellent, dirty, distasteful, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), tight, foul-smelling, loathsome, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, unsporting, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, fouled, repellant

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nastyadjective

    Synonyms:
    filthy, squalid, foul, polluted, dirty, indecent, indelicate, gross, ribald, lewd, obscene, smutty, shameless, odious, sickening, repulsive, nauseous, disgusting, disagreeable

How to use nasty in a sentence?

  1. Richard Avery:

    And his wife yelled at him, ‘You’re a nasty horndog’.

  2. David Payne:

    It certainly has gotten really nasty, really quick.

  3. Mark Serreze:

    While it's inevitable that Arctic rainfall will increase as the climate warms, rains are also likely to become more intense, it's a nasty one-two punch to an ecosystem already reeling in the face if rapid environmental change.

  4. Sandy Blankenships daughter:

    This virus is nasty, any time I was in Life Care, they were very attentive. And the staff at Starr Regional was amazing. I live seven hours away and the nurse caring for her when she passed dressed out to go in and put the phone to her ear so Sandy Blankenships daughter, my husbandand my son could say goodbye.

  5. Fani Willis:

    I'll tell your viewers and any other viewers : It does not offend me to call me Black. It just doesn't. They're wasting their time, however, they continue to send those very nasty messages. I've never been called the N-word so much in my life.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#155good
#621easy
#1157nice
#1809clean
#2466sweet
#3337pure
#5538pleasant
#7683nasty
#26303savory
#29420agreeable
#219755unobjectionable

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