Beauty vs Dirty - What's the difference?

As adverbs the difference between beauty and dirty

is that beauty is of high quality, well done while dirty is in a dirty manner.

As a noun beauty

is the property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.

As an interjection beauty

is thanks! Cool.

As an adjective dirty is

unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

As a verb dirty is

to make (something) dirty.

beauty

English

(wikipedia beauty)

Noun

The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

* 1988', "… '''beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -''Second Son , Robert Ferro

Someone who is beautiful.

Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty .

Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

That phrasing is a beauty .

What a goal, what a beauty .

An excellent or egregious example of something.

(with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius

''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

(particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

* Jeremy Taylor

She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty .

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.

Synonyms

* gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness * (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker * (something pleasing) gem, jewel * See also * See also

Antonyms

* repulsiveness, homeliness, ugliness

Derived terms

* age before beauty * bathing beauty * beaut * beauteous * beautician * beautifiable * beautification * beautifier * beautiful * beautifully * beautifulness * beautify * beautiless * beauty consultant * beauty contest * beauty is in the eye of the beholder * beauty is only skin deep * beauty mark * beauty pageant * beauty parlor * beauty quark * beauty salon * beauty school * beauty shop * beauty sleep * beauty spot * beauty strip * beautyberry * beautybush * beautydom * beautyhood * beautyship * California beauty * Camberwell beauty * line of beauty * meadow beauty * painted beauty * raw beauty * Rome beauty * Rutland beauty * Sleeping Beauty * spring beauty

Interjection

(en interjection)

(Canada) Thanks! Cool!

It's the long weekend. Beauty !

Adverb

(en adverb)

(Canada) Of high quality, well done.

He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

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dirty

English

Adjective

(er)

Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.

Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.

Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable.

Corrupt, illegal, or improper.

Out of tune.

Of color, discolored by impurities.

(computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.

(slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.

(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".

Sleety; gusty; stormy.

* M. Arnold

Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.

* (Douglas Adams),

Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.

Synonyms

* (covered with or containing dirt) filthy, soiled, sordid, unclean, unwashed; see also * (violating accepted standards or rules) cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike * (obtained illegally or by improper means) ill-gotten * (considered morally corrupt) base, dishonest, dishonorable, filthy, despicable, lousy, mean, sordid, unethical, vile * (considered obscene or indecent) indecent, lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious * dingy, dullish, muddied, muddy

Antonyms

* (covered with or containing dirt) clean * (violating accepted standards or rules) sportsmanlike * bright, pure

Derived terms

* dirtiness * dirty bomb * dirty code * dirty dance * dirty dancing * dirty girl * dirty grease * Dirty Harry * dirty joke * dirty laundry * dirty look * dirty magazine * dirty mouth * dirty old man * dirty rice * dirty Sanchez * dirty talk * dirty weather * dirty word * dirty work * dirty wound * do someone dirty * filthy dirty * quick-and-dirty * quick and dirty

Adverb

(en adverb)

In a dirty manner.

Synonyms

* (in a dirty manner) deceptively, dirtily, indecently, underhandedly

Derived terms

* talk dirty

Verb

(en-verb)

To make (something) dirty.

To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.

To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).

To become soiled.

Synonyms

* (to make dirty) soil, taint; see also * (to stain or tarnish with dishonor) sully