shitty

From shit +‎ -y.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪti/, [ˈʃɪɾi]

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

shitty (comparative shittier, superlative shittiest)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.

   The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.

   I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.

   • 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground, Spin, page 101,

     It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.

   • 2006, Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story, 2009, unnumbered page,

     The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.

   • 2011, Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires, page 134,

     Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.

2. (US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.

   Don't get shitty at me!

4. (vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
5. (informal, vulgar) Of low quality or standard; inferior; not up to par, or failing one's expectations
   • 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep: A Novel - Page 157:

     “She's a shitty teacher, but Ault was in a bind.” But she hadn't been a shitty teacher when she'd been hired. She'd never taught before. And who was Aspeth to decide she was shitty now? She was still inexperienced.

• (all senses): crappy (less intense), poopy (childish)
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (high): See Thesaurus:stoned
• (poor quality): shithouse (UK, AU, & NZ)

• shittiness

• See shit

• stithy