English > unclean: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. |
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Example | "wore an unclean shirt" |
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Synonyms | dirty, soiled |
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Attribute of | cleanness | The state of being clean |
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Narrower | Augean | Extremely filthy from long neglect |
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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 |
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Opposite | clean | Free from dirt or impurities |
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Spanish | inmundo, sucio |
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Catalan | brut, immund |
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Nouns | uncleanness | the state of being unsanitary |
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