Dictionary Definition
scruffy adj : shabby and untidy; "a surge of
ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant
with gin"- Mark Twain [syn: seedy] [also: scruffiest, scruffier]
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English
Adjective
en-adj more- untidy in appearance
Translations
- Finnish: suttuinen, epäsiisti
- Russian: неряшливый
- Spanish: Desaliñado
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Extensive Definition
Scruffy can refer to several things:
- Scruffy, the name of a recurring character in the television show Futurama
- A character from the computer-animated series, Pet Alien
- Neats vs. scruffies, in the field of artificial intelligence, a school of thought that prefers empiricism to formalism
- A three part mini series "Scruffy" which originally aired as an ABC Weekend Special in 1980, and the title character of the series
- The dog on the television show The Ghost & Mrs Muir
- The cat in the 1990 movie Madhouse
- Scruffy the Pig on Full House
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abject,
abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, beneath contempt,
cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, dowdy, down-at-heel,
down-at-the-heels, dusty,
execrable, flagrant, foul, frayed, frazzled, full of holes,
fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, heinous, holey, in rags, in shreds, in
tatters, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, messy, miry, miserable, monstrous, moth-eaten,
muddy, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, patchy, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, ratty, reptilian, rubbishy, run-down, sad, scabby, scrubby, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slovenly, small, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sooty, sorry, squalid, tacky, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
unmentionable,
untidy, valueless, vile, worthless, wretched