单词 | unclean |
释义 | unclean (once / 1115 pages) adj WORD FAMILY unclean: uncleaner, uncleanest, uncleanness+/clean: cleanable, cleaned, cleaner, cleanest, cleaning, cleanly, cleanness, cleans, unclean/cleaner: cleaners/cleaning: cleanings/cleanliness: cleanlinesses/cleanly: cleanlier, cleanliest, cleanlily, cleanliness, uncleanly/cleanness: cleannesses/uncleanly: uncleanliness/uncleanness: uncleannesses USAGE EXAMPLESUnclean water and poor sanitation abetted his decline. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) The medical center admitted that unclean surgical tools sometimes forced doctors to delay procedures, although it insists that no one was harmed. Washington Times(Nov 29, 2016) At home, she has been a disciplinarian, stressing national order and calling her critics “unclean forces.” New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1adj soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime wore an unclean shirt Syn|Ant dirty, soiled Augean extremely filthy from long neglect bedraggled, draggledlimp and soiled as if dragged in the mud befouled, fouledmade dirty or foul begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchythickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot black, smuttysoiled with dirt or soot buggyinfested with bugs cobwebbycovered with cobwebs dirty-facedhaving a dirty face feculentfoul with waste matter filthy, foul, nastydisgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter flyblown, sordid, squalidfoul and run-down and repulsive greasy, oilysmeared or soiled with grease or oil lousyinfested with lice maculatespotted or blotched mucky, muddydirty and messy; covered with mud or muck rattydirty and infested with rats scummycovered with scum smudgysmeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination snot-nosed, snottydirty with nasal discharge sootycovered with or as if with soot travel-soiled, travel-stainedsoiled from travel uncleanlyhabitually unclean unsweptnot having been swept unwashednot cleaned with or as if with soap and water untidynot neat and tidy clean free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits cleanablecapable of being cleaned cleanlyhabitually clean dry-cleanedcleaned with chemical solvents fresh, unusednot yet used or soiled immaculate, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotlesscompletely neat and clean pristineimmaculately clean and unused scrubbedmade clean by scrubbing unsoiled, unspotted, unstainedwithout soil or spot or stain unsulliedspotlessly clean and fresh washed, water-washedclean by virtue of having been washed in water antisepticthoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms tidymarked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits 2adj 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|Ant impure nonkosher, terefah, tref not conforming to dietary laws untouchable( especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling impurecombined with extraneous elements clean ritually clean or pure cleanfree from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits halalconforming to dietary laws cosher, kosherconforming to dietary laws purefree of extraneous elements of any kind |
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