unclean

3 definitions found

unclean - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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unclean - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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,
             unclean] [ant: clean]
      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"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn:
         unclean, impure] [ant: clean]

unclean - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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