unclean
Adjective
- Not clean; dirty or impure.
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- "wore an unclean shirt"
- having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; ; -Leviticus 11:3
- "unclean meat"
- "and the swine...is unclean to you"
Adj
- Dirty, soiled or foul.
- Not moral or chaste.
- Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
Examples
- The letter ’Q’ seemed UNCLEAN, always needing a ’U’ to make it respectable on the board.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English unclene, from Old English unclǣne, equivalent to un- + clean.
Synonyms
dirty, impure, soiled, befouled, besmirched, clarty, cruddy, dirtsome, foul, grotty, grubby, horry, icky, manky, nasty, seamy, sordid, squalid, sullied, unclean, unwashed, yucky
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
unclean: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordunclean: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unclean: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary