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cleanshaven

cleanshaven is the alternative spelling of clean-shaven.

Meaning of clean-shaven

Adjective

clean-shaven (comparative more clean-shaven, superlative most clean-shaven)

  1. Having had hair (especially facial hair) shaved off, so that it is no longer visible.
    • a clean-shaven man; a clean-shaven face; a clean-shaven leg

Forms of cleanshaven

comparativemore cleanshaven
superlativemost cleanshaven

Origin of cleanshaven

From clean + shaven.

Questions about cleanshaven

What is cleanshaven the alternative spelling of?
Cleanshaven is the alternative spelling of clean-shaven.

Words near cleanshaven in the dictionary

  1. cleanser
  2. cleansers
  3. cleanses
  4. cleansest
  5. cleanseth
  6. cleanshaven
  7. cleansheet
  8. cleansheets
  9. cleansing
  10. cleansingly
  11. cleansings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cleanshaven (page history and authors); clean-shaven (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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