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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime;
- Example: "dirty unswept sidewalks"
- Example: "a child in dirty overalls"
- Example: "dirty slums"
- Example: "piles of dirty dishes"
- Example: "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"
- Example: "wore an unclean shirt"
- Example: "mining is a dirty job"
- Example: "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
[syn: dirty, soiled, unclean]

2. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws;
- Example: "unclean meat"
- Example: "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
[syn: unclean, impure]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unclean \Un*clean"\ ([u^]n*kl[=e]n"), a. [AS. uncl[=ae]ne. See Unnot, and Clean.] 1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. [1913 Webster] 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. [1913 Webster] He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. --Num. xix. 11. [1913 Webster] 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate and unclean affections." --Perkins. [1913 Webster] -- Un*clean"ly, adv. -- Un*clean"ness, n. [1913 Webster] Unclean animals (Script.), those which the Israelites were forbidden to use for food. Unclean spirit (Script.), a wicked spirit; a demon. --Mark i. 27. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unclean adj 1: 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" [syn: dirty, soiled, unclean] [ant: clean] 2: 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"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn: unclean, impure] [ant: clean]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

146 Moby Thesaurus words for "unclean": Adamic, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, backsliding, base, bawdy, beastly, beneath contempt, besmirched, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, carnal, common, contaminated, contemptible, corrupted, defiled, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, erring, fallen, fetid, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frail, fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, infected, infirm, ithyphallic, lamentable, lapsed, lewd, loathsome, lousy, lurid, maculate, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, nonkosher, notorious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, of easy virtue, offensive, outrageous, peccable, pitiable, pitiful, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, rank, raunchy, recidivist, recidivistic, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, sad, salacious, scandalous, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, sordid, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted, terrible, too bad, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, uncleanly, ungodly, ungood, unprintable, unpure, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, villainous, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched