unclean

Adjective

Meaning

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.

Morally impure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

impure dirty soiled black rotten sooty mucky corrupt contaminated foul corrupted immoral polluted muddy obscene

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Antonyms

clean virgin immaculate good spruce bactericidal

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Phrases with the word

unclean water make unclean unclean spirits unclean body

Examples

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. Confucius

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence. Georg Brandes

Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person. Thomas Szasz

In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity. Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

An unclean person is universally a slothful one. Henry David Thoreau

So many ways to be deemed unclean. Frances Bean Cobain

Close letter words and terms

Uncle Whiskers uncle's child uncle-in-law unclean body unclean hands unclean spirits