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say it: kleen
clean is an adjective, verb, adverb and noun meaning "free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits". It carries 31 recorded senses.
free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
“children with clean shining faces”
“clean white shirts”
“clean dishes”
“a spotlessly clean house”
“cats are clean animals”
free of restrictions or qualifications
“a clean bill of health”
“a clear winner”
(of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
“a clean voting record”
“a clean driver's license”
not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
“a clean fuel”
“cleaner and more efficient engines”
“the tactical bomb is reasonably clean”
(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
“good clean fun”
“a clean joke”
exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
“a clean fight”
“a sporting solution of the disagreement”
“sportsmanlike conduct”
not carrying concealed weapons
clean and tidy up the house
“She housecleans every week”
deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
“The other players cleaned him completely”
a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clean come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.