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cleanish

cleanish adjective: somewhat clean (all senses).

Adjective

cleanish (comparative more cleanish, superlative most cleanish)

  1. Somewhat clean (all senses).
    • On one flat street I passed a junkyard, littered with the carcasses of old cars. […] As I wound my way through the discards a temporary solution sprang to my mind. I would find a clean or cleanish car and spend the night in it.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 32, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 213

Forms of cleanish

comparativemore cleanish
superlativemost cleanish

Origin of cleanish

From clean + -ish.

Questions about cleanish

What does cleanish mean?
Cleanish means somewhat clean (all senses).
What part of speech is cleanish?
Cleanish is an adjective.

Words near cleanish in the dictionary

  1. cleaning women
  2. cleaning-ladies
  3. cleaning-lady
  4. cleanings
  5. cleaningware
  6. cleanish
  7. cleanlier
  8. cleanliest
  9. cleanlily
  10. cleanliness
  11. cleanliness is next to godliness

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