Unclean

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unclean \Un*clean"\ ([u^]n*kl[=e]n"), a. [AS. uncl[=ae]ne. See
     {Unnot}, and {Clean}.]
     1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
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     2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.


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              He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be
              unclean seven days.                   --Num. xix.
                                                    11.
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     3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of
        inordinate and unclean affections." --Perkins.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un*clean"ly}, adv. -- {Un*clean"ness},
        n.
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     {Unclean animals} (Script.), those which the Israelites were
        forbidden to use for food.
  
     {Unclean spirit} (Script.), a wicked spirit; a demon. --Mark
        i. 27.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unclean
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {dirty}, {soiled}]
              [ant: {clean}]
       2: ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to
          you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn: {impure}] [ant: {clean}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "unclean":
     Adamic, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abominable, arrant, atrocious,
     awful, backsliding, base, bawdy, beastly, beneath contempt,
     besmirched, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, carnal, common,
     contaminated, contemptible, corrupted, defiled, deplorable,
     despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful,
     egregious, enormous, erring, fallen, fetid, filthy, flagrant,
     fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frail,
     fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible,
     horrid, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, infected, infirm,
     ithyphallic, lamentable, lapsed, lewd, loathsome, lousy, lurid,
     maculate, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, nonkosher,
     notorious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, of easy virtue, offensive,
     outrageous, peccable, pitiable, pitiful, polluted, pornographic,
     postlapsarian, prodigal, rank, raunchy, recidivist, recidivistic,
     regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, ribald, ritually unclean,
     rotten, sad, salacious, scandalous, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous,
     scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, smirched, smoking-room,
     smutty, soiled, soily, sordid, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted,
     terrible, too bad, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, uncleanly,
     ungodly, ungood, unprintable, unpure, unrepeatable, unrighteous,
     unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unvirginal, unvirtuous,
     unwashed, unwiped, vile, villainous, virtueless, wanton, wayward,
     weak, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched