unclean
/ʌnˈkliːn/
unclean adjective: dirty, soiled or foul.
Adjective
unclean (comparative uncleaner, superlative uncleanest)
- Dirty, soiled or foul.
- They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food. A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 194
- Not moral or chaste.
- I stand amazed in the presence / Of Jesus, the Nazarene, / And wonder how He could love me, / A sinner, condemend, unclean.1905, Charles H. Gabriel, “My Savior's Love”, in E.O. Excell, editor, Praises, Chicago: E.O. Excell
- Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
unclean meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
unclean in Hindi
- unclean, impure
- नापाक nāpāk, अपवित्र apavitra
- unclean
- मुर्दार murdār
unclean in Tamil
- துப்புரவற்ற
unclean in Marathi
- अशुद्ध
unclean in Urdu
- unclean, impure
- ناپاک nāpāk
- unclean
- گندہ ganda, مردار murdār
More languagesFewer languages
- unclean in Bengali
- খবিশ khobiś
- unclean in Telugu
- అశుచి aśuci, అపవిత్రము apavitramu
- unclean in Malayalam
- വൃത്തികെട്ട, വൃത്തിയില്ലാത്ത, വൃത്തിഹീനമായ, വെടിപ്പില്ലാത്ത
- unclean in Kannada
- ಮುಸುರೆ, ಅಶುದ್ಧ, ಅಪವಿತ್ರ, ಕಲ್ಮಷವುಳ್ಳ
- unclean in Punjabi
- ਅਸ਼ੁੱਧ
- unclean in Gujarati
- અશુદ્ધ
- unclean in Odia
- ଅସନା asanā
- unclean in Sinhala
- අපිරිසිදු apirisidu
- unclean in Nepali
- अशुद्ध
- unclean in Pashto
- سخا sxâ, خيرن xirën
Examples of unclean in a sentence
- Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.
- The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch.
- She had thought in the past of autoforgetting with dread and fear, feeling something unclean and wretched about being a forgetty.
Synonyms of unclean
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Antonyms
Forms of unclean
| comparative | uncleaner |
|---|---|
| superlative | uncleanest |
Origin of unclean
From Middle English unclene, from Old English unclǣne, equivalent to un- + clean.
Words formed from unclean
Words that rhyme with unclean
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
- lien
Questions about unclean
- What does unclean mean?
- Unclean means dirty, soiled or foul.
- What is unclean in Hindi?
- Unclean in Hindi is नापाक (nāpāk), अपवित्र (apavitra), मुर्दार (murdār). See Unclean meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unclean?
- Unclean is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unclean?
- Unclean is pronounced /ʌnˈkliːn/.
Words near unclean in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unclean (page history and authors); अपवित्र (Hindi) (page history and authors); unclean (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unclean (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); مردار (Urdu) (page history and authors); খবিশ (Bengali) (page history and authors); అపవిత్రము (Telugu) (page history and authors); unclean (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unclean (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unclean (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unclean (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଅସନା (Odia) (page history and authors); අපිරිසිදු (Sinhala) (page history and authors); unclean (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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