filth

/fɪlθ/

filth noun: dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

Noun (1)

filth (usually uncountable, plural filths)

(usually) Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
- Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.
(usually) Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
- He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.
- Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the...1671, John Tillotson, “Phil[ippians] iij. 8.”, in Sermons Preach’d upon Several Occasions, London: […] A[nne] M[axwell] for Sa[muel] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, pages 190–191
(derogatory, usually) A vile or disgusting person.
- I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.1963, Charles Webb, The Graduate
- They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.2011, Jeremy Robert Hall, Summer Days
(US, dated, usually) Weeds growing on pasture land.
- Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

Noun (2)

the filth (uncountable)

(Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) The police.
- We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.
- Riding through the city on my bike all day/'Cause the filth took away my licence2006, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen

Noun (3) capitalized: FILTH

FILTH (plural FILTHs)

(UK, abbreviation, acronym, derogatory) Acronym of failed in London, try Hongkong.
- The British expatriate in Hong Kong has long been known as FILTH.1994 September 8, Jojo Moyes, “Goodbye to the Hong Kong high life: Young Britons heading for a last outpost of empire are in for a shock, says Jojo Moyes”, in Independent

filth meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

filth in Hindi

dirt: गंदगी gandgī, गंद gand

filth in Marathi

घाण

filth in Urdu

dirt: گَنْدَگی gandagī, گَنْد gand

filth in Telugu

dirt: మురికి muriki

More languagesFewer languages

filth in Punjabi: ਗੰਦਗੀ
filth in Arabic: قَذَارَة qaḏāra
filth in Thai: สิ่งปฏิกูล sìng-bpà-dtì-guun
filth in Vietnamese: rác rưởi, rác bẩn
filth in Myanmar: အညစ်အကြေး a.nyaca.kre:

Examples of filth in a sentence

For quotations using this term, see Citations:read someone to filth.
My life represents that of saintlihood, yet strives in worldly filth.
He had come to ditch his rufies and stash of filth in a bid for salvation.

All 34 example sentences with filth

Forms of filth

plural	filths
plural	FILTHs

Origin of filth

From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).

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Questions about filth

What does filth mean?: Filth means dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
What is filth in Hindi?: Filth in Hindi is गंदगी (gandgī), गंद (gand). See Filth meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is filth?: Filth is a noun.
How do you pronounce filth?: Filth is pronounced /fɪlθ/.
What is the plural of filth?: The plural of filth is filths.

Words near filth in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: filth (page history and authors); FILTH (page history and authors); filth (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); filth (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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