unclean (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 2 senses of the word *unclean*:
ADJECTIVE	all	unclean, dirty, soiled	soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
all	unclean, impure	having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws

unclean > pronunciation
Sounds	ahnkliy'n
Rhymes	Aberdeen ... wolverine / Wolverine: 192 rhymes with iyn...

English > *unclean*: 2 senses > adjective 1
Meaning	Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.
Example	"wore an unclean shirt"
Synonyms	dirty, soiled
Attribute of	cleanness	The state of being clean
Narrower	Augean	Extremely filthy from long neglect
	bedraggled, draggled	Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
	befouled, fouled	made dirty or foul
	begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy	thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
	black, smutty	Soiled with dirt or soot
	buggy	infested with bugs
	cobwebby	Covered with cobwebs
	dirty-faced	Having a dirty face
	feculent	foul with waste matter
	filthy, foul, nasty	disgustingly dirty
	flyblown, squalid, sordid	foul and run-down and repulsive
	greasy, oily	smeared or soiled with grease or oil
	lousy	infested with lice
	maculate	spotted or blotched
	mucky, muddy	dirty and messy
	ratty	dirty and infested with rats
	scummy	Covered with scum
	smudgy	smeared with something that soils or stains
	snotty, snot-nosed	dirty with nasal discharge
	sooty	Covered with or as if with soot
	travel-soiled, travel-stained	Soiled from travel
	uncleanly	Habitually unclean
	unswept	not having been swept / swept
	unwashed	not cleaned with or as if with soap and water
See also	untidy	not neat and tidy
Opposite	clean	Free from dirt or impurities
Spanish	inmundo, sucio
Catalan	brut, immund
Nouns	uncleanness	the state of being unsanitary

English > *unclean*: 2 senses > adjective 2
Meaning	Having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws.
Examples	"unclean meat" "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
Synonym	impure
Category	religion, faith, religious belief	A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
Narrower	nonkosher, tref, terefah	not conforming to dietary laws
Narrower	untouchable	(especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling
See also	impure	combined with extraneous elements
Opposite	clean	ritually clean or pure
Spanish	impuro, sucio
Catalan	impur
Nouns	uncleanness	the state of being unsanitary

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