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say it: uhn-KLEEN
unclean is an adjective meaning "soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime". It carries 2 recorded senses.
soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
“dirty unswept sidewalks”
“a child in dirty overalls”
“dirty slums”
“piles of dirty dishes”
“put his dirty feet on the clean sheet”
“wore an unclean shirt”
“mining is a dirty job”
“Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves”
having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
“unclean meat”
“and the swine...is unclean to you”
religion
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 unclean 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.