unclean
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ʌnˈkliːn/
Definition of unclean
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
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adj
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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.”
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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.”
- Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English unclene, from Old English unclǣne, equivalent to un- + clean.
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