Definition of unclean Unclean
/ʌnkliˈn/ - [unkleen] - un•clean
We found 11 definitions of unclean from 6 different sources.
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What does unclean mean?
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Adjectiveunclean, uncleaner, uncleanest |
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| unclean - having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 | ||
| impure | ||
| clean free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years" | ||
| impure (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts" | ||
| religious belief, religion, faith a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality" | ||
| nonkosher, terefah, tref not conforming to dietary laws | ||
| unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "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" | ||
| dirty, soiled | ||
| clean free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years" | ||
| untidy not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" | ||
| cleanness without moral defects | ||
| augean extremely filthy from long neglect | ||
| draggled, bedraggled limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" | ||
| befouled, fouled made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot" | ||
| begrimed, grimy, grungy, grubby, dingy, raunchy thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" | ||
| smutty, black marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" | ||
| buggy infested with bugs | ||
| cobwebby covered with cobwebs | ||
| dirty-faced having a dirty face; "a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him" | ||
| feculent foul with waste matter | ||
| filthy, nasty, foul disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" | ||
| squalid, flyblown, sordid especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation" | ||
| greasy, oily smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags" | ||
| lousy infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes" | ||
| maculate spotted or blotched | ||
| mucky, muddy dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" | ||
| ratty dirty and infested with rats | ||
| scummy covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond" | ||
| smudgy smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers" | ||
| snot-nosed, snotty dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" | ||
| sooty covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney" | ||
| travel-soiled, travel-stained soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes" | ||
| uncleanly habitually unclean | ||
| unswept not having been swept; "unswept floors" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- unclean (a.)
Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. - unclean (a.)
Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. - unclean (a.)
Morally impure.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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unclean
Regarded by a religious rule as being, temporarily or permanently, very dirty or in a similar condition, and, as such, banned from the sacred places as well as, if a thing or an animal, from major uses such as being eaten or, if a person, from major activities, such as sexual intercourse or social life among non such people.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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unclean
un-klēn′, adj. not clean: foul: (B.) ceremonially impure: sinful: lewd.—n. Unclean′liness.—adj. Unclean′ly.—n. Unclean′ness, the state or quality of being unclean: dirtiness: (B.) want of ceremonial purity: moral impurity: sinfulness
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