unclean
- adjective
- /ʌnˈklin/
- Drinking, bathing, and cooking with unclean water sources can cause illness.
The glasses were unclean, the floor was unclean.
- The glasses were unclean, the floor was unclean.
- Dark, dank, stinky, unclean clothes everywhere, right?
- is like this and it shoots out like that, it's unclean.
- The brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the suing Jelly, which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a demon galleon.
Examples
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This bed is unclean.
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There was a smell of something close, damp, and unclean like mold.
Fiction book (1993) -
The glasses were unclean, the floor was unclean.
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It's not the world that makes humans unclean, but humans who make the world unclean.
Blog text (16) -
Drinking, bathing, and cooking with unclean water sources can cause illness as well.
Academic text (2015) -
In addition to unclean hands, common vehicles of food contamination include soil, garbage, rodents, insects, and air.
Academic text (1998) -
Cleanliness brought an end to this unique riverine sociality, and the unclean sewage and garbage habits of the past became illegal and taboo.
Academic text (2016) -
Many people suffer from diseases that come from unclean water and food.
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Food becomes contaminated with bacteria when it is prepared improperly or in an unclean environment.
Synonyms
Not clean or covered with dirt
Very dirty and covered with things that smell bad
Very unpleasant and making you feel sick or disgusted
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
Very dirty and bad to touch or smell
Not clean and likely to cause illness
Not clean and likely to make people sick
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
Dirty and covered with tiny living things that can make you sick
Covered in poop or very dirty
Dirty and likely to cause disease
Covered thickly with dark dirt or soot
Dirty and polluted with waste or unwanted material
Something that becomes unsafe because it touches something dirty or harmful
Spoiled and unsafe because it has rot or something harmful
Not cleaned and may have germs or dirt
Covered with animal poop and smelling bad
Antonyms
How Clean
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unclean comes from the parts un- ('not') and clean ('free from dirt'), which makes it easy to remember. So, unclean also simply means 'dirty' or likely to make other things dirty.