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Adjective: unclean (uncleaner,uncleanest)  ún'kleen
  1. Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
    "wore an unclean shirt"
    - dirty, soiled
     
  2. 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"
    - impure

Derived forms: uncleaner, uncleanest

See also: Augean, bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, black, buggy, cleanness, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dingy, dirty-faced, draggled, feculent, filthy, flyblown, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, impure, lousy, maculate, mucky, muddy, nasty, nonkosher, oily, ratty, raunchy [US], scummy, smudgy, smutty, snot-nosed, snotty, sooty, sordid, squalid, terefah, travel-soiled, travel-stained, tref, uncleanly [archaic], uncleanness, unswept, untidy, untouchable, unwashed

Antonym: clean

Encyclopedia: Unclean