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English adjective: unclean | |||
| 1. | unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | ||
| Samples | Dirty unswept sidewalks. A child in dirty overalls. Dirty slums. Piles of dirty dishes. Put his dirty feet on the clean sheet. Wore an unclean shirt. Mining is a dirty job. Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves. | ||
| Synonyms | dirty, soiled | ||
| Similar | Augean, bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, black, buggy, cobwebby, dingy, dirty-faced, draggled, feculent, filthy, flyblown, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, lousy, maculate, mucky, muddy, nasty, oily, ratty, raunchy, scummy, smudgy, smutty, snot-nosed, snotty, sooty, sordid, squalid, travel-soiled, travel-stained, uncleanly, unswept, unwashed | ||
| See also | untidy | ||
| Attribute | cleanness | ||
| Antonyms | clean | ||
| 2. | unclean having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws | ||
| Samples | Unclean meat. And the swine...is unclean to you. | ||
| Synonyms | impure | ||
| Similar | nonkosher, terefah, tref, untouchable | ||
| See also | impure | ||
| Domain category | faith, religion, religious belief | ||
| Antonyms | clean | ||
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