Unclean

Definition: Unclean

Unclean

Adjective

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".

2. (religion) ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unclean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Unclean

Demon

Noun: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush.

Impurity

Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.

Satan

Fallen angels, unclean spirits, devils; the rulers, the powers of darkness; inhabitants of Pandemonium; demon.

Ugliness

Render ugly; Adjective: deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish; (injure); soil; (render unclean).

Uncleanness

Verb: be unclean, become unclean; Adjective:; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad; Adjective:

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy.

Crosswords: Unclean

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

From all of the unclean (Blurry; performing artist: Puddle Of Mudd)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• An Unclean Act (reference)

• Can a Christian Have an Unclean Spirit? Volume I: Satan and the Angels (reference)

• Clean & Unclean Foods (reference)

• Purity and Monotheism: Clean and Unclean Animals in Biblical Law (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 140) (reference)

• Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Unclean (reference)

• Unclean Beaver (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The den into which his eyes were at that moment directed, was abject, filthy, fetid, infectious, gloomy, unclean.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Minorities

India

Dalits are considered unclean by higher caste Hindus and thus traditionally are relegated to separate villages or neighborhoods and to low paying and often undesirable occupations (such as scavenging, street sweeping, and removing human waste and dead animals). (references)

Women

Nigeria

WOPED believes that the practice is perpetuated because of a cultural belief that uncircumcised women are promiscuous, unclean, unsuitable for marriage, physically undesirable, or potential health risks to themselves and their children, especially during childbirth. (references)

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

Press reports in June noted a recently released report of a study conducted by the Ministry of Labor that stated that many industrial establishments fail to observe health and safety regulations, and more than half provide substandard housing and unclean environments, with sometimes as many as 15 workers living in a single room. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "unclean": be unclean ♦ become unclean ♦ render unclean ♦ unclean animals ♦ unclean spirit. Additional references.

Afrikaans

vuil (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Albanian

papastër (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i papastruar (crude), i papastër (impure, unhygienic), i palarë (dirty, grubby, unwashed), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نجس (defile, defiled, impure, pollute, profane, sinful, untouchable), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏غير طاهر (impure). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нечестив (impious, nefarious, profane, unhallowed, unholy), нечист (dirty, drossy, foul, impure, slatternly, turbid, uncleanly, unwashed), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unwashed, vile). (various references)

Catalan

brut (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Chinese 

脏, 不干不淨 (filthy). (various references)

Czech

zneèištìný (dirty, impure), neèistý (impure), špinavý (black, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, murky, nasty, seamy, slovenly, smutty, sordid, squalid). (various references)

Danish

snavset (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Dutch

vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, waste, windfall), vies (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), smerig (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, soiled), onrein (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), morsig (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Esperanto

malpura (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Faeroese

skitin (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Farsi 

نجس , ناپاک (Impure, Squawk, Unwell, Unwholesome), غیرسالم (Unhealthy, Unwholesome), الوده (Septic, Spotty). (various references)

Finnish

saastainen (filthy, foul, impure), likainen (dirty, filthy, impure, soiled), epäpuhdas (impure). (various references)

French

sale (untidy). (various references)

Frisian

fiis (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

German

unsauber (bent, black, dirty, impure, inaccurate, inaccurately, scruff, shady, underhand, unfair, unpurified, untidy), unrein (bad, dirty, impure, impurely, unchaste, uncleanly). (various references)

Greek 

ακάθαρτοσ (filthy, foul, grubby, impure, slaggy, slimy, slob, sloppy, verminous). (various references)

Hawaiian

papastër (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכלך (dirty, dungy, foul, grimy, grubby, messy, nasty, smutty, soiled, sordid), לא � קי (impure), שקץ (abomination, bum, detestation), �'עול (abhorrence, dirty, loathing, nausea), בלתי ט�"ור, טמא (contaminated, defiled, impure). (various references)

Hungarian

tisztátlan (impure), szemérmetlen (devoid of shame, dirty, indecent, nasty, obscene, ribald, shameless, unchaste), piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, untidy). (various references)

Indonesian

kotor (dingy, dirty, grimy, grubby, mucky). (various references)

Irish

salach (dirty, filthy, soiled). (various references)

Italian

immondo (dirty, filthy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

汚い　 (dirty, filthy), 汚い (dirty, filthy), 不�" (dirty, filthy, impure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きたない (dirty, filthy), ふけつ (dirty, filthy, impure). (various references)

Korean 

불결한 (filthy, impure). (various references)

Manx

sollagh (dirty, filthy, grimy, grotty, grubby, sordid), neughlen (foul, impure, lewd, muddy, vulgar), broigh (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Norwegian

skitten (dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Papiamen

sushi (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), fis (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Pig Latin

eanunclay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, untidy, unwashed). (various references)

Romanian

necurat (accursed, cursed, dark, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, funny, shady, suspicious), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, untidy), impur (feculent, impure). (various references)

Russian 

нечистый (dirty, drossy, impure, muddy, off-color, the wicked one, uncleanly). (various references)

Scottish

salach (dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prljav (dingy, dirty, drossy, feculent, filthy, foul, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, scurvy, sordid, squalid), nečist (dishonest, disorderly, impure, profane). (various references)

Spanish

sucio (crummy, dingy, dirty, feculent, filthy, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, soiled, unfairly, unwashed). (various references)

Sranan

morsu (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), fisti (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), doti (dirty, earth, fertilizer, filthy, land, manure, nasty, soil, soiled). (various references)

Swedish

smutsig (crummy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, soiled, sordid, squalid). (various references)

Tagalog

marumí (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

Turkish

pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, uncleanly), kirli (bedraggled, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, grimy, grubby, impure, smudgy, soiled, spotted, squalid, venose, venous), kírlí (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked). (various references)

Ukrainian

нечистий (adulterant, dark, drossy, impure, unchaste), неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, soppy, squalid, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy), аморальний (amoral, bad, immoral, libertine, licentious, non moral, reprobate, unmoral), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không tinh khiết dâm ô, bẩn (smudgy, smutchy). (various references)

Welsh

brwnt (dirty, filthy, foul, harsh, nasty, soiled), aflan (foul, polluted). (various references)

Yucatec

eek' (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled). (various references)

immunda, inlotis, inmunda, inmundae, inmundam, inmundas, inmunde, inmundi, inmundis, inmundo, inmundorum, inmundos, inmundum, inmundus, sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "unclean": uncleaned, uncleaner, uncleanest, uncleanliness, uncleanlinesses, uncleanly, uncleanness, uncleannesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unclean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anacletan, Guncelin, nuclein, Onkelinx. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cannel, cuneal, lacune, launce, nuance, nuncle, unlace.

-2 letters: annul, clean, lance, nance, ulnae, uncle.

-3 letters: acne, alec, cane, caul, clan, clue, elan, lace, lane, lean, luce, luna, lune, ulan, ulna.

-4 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, cue, eau, ecu, lac, lea, leu, nae, nan, nun.

-5 letters: ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne, nu.

+1 letter: cannulae.

+2 letters: candlenut, incunable, luminance, unbalance, uncleaned, uncleaner, uncleanly.

+3 letters: candlenuts, consensual, conventual, enunciable, granduncle, incunables, luminances, nonnuclear, nucleating, nucleation, unbalanced, unbalances, uncalcined, uncanceled, uncleanest.

+4 letters: antinuclear, antinucleon, conventuals, counterplan, crenulation, encapsuling, enucleating, enucleation, granduncles, illuminance, lieutenancy, mononuclear, noncellular, nucleations, relaunching, translucent, unceasingly, uncertainly, unchanneled, uncleanness, unconcealed, uncongenial, uncountable, undanceable, uninucleate, unmasculine, unreluctant, untechnical.