grimy.

Covered with ingrained dirt, soot, or grease.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• grimy windows
• grimy hands

On the page

Through the grimy windows, the streetlights looked blurred.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Comparative more grimy; superlative most grimy when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.