'Clean' definitions:
Definition of 'clean'
From: WordNet
adverb
Completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum]
adverb
In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: fairly, fair, clean] [ant: below the belt, unfairly]
adjective
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" [ant: dirty, soiled, unclean]
adjective
Free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner" [syn: clean, clear]
adjective
(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" [syn: clean, clear, light, unclouded]
adjective
Free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air" [syn: clean, fresh]
adjective
(of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license"
adjective
adjective
Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean" [syn: clean, uncontaminating] [ant: contaminating, dirty]
adjective
(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke" [syn: clean, unobjectionable] [ant: dirty]
adjective
Free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound" [syn: uninfected, clean]
adjective
Morally pure; "led a clean life" [syn: clean, clean- living]
adjective
(of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript" [syn: clean, fair]
adjective
(of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white]
adjective
Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike]
adjective
Without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"
adjective
Thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"
adjective
Not carrying concealed weapons
adjective
Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" [syn: clean, neat]
adjective
Free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
noun
A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead [syn: clean and jerk, clean]
verb
Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" [syn: clean, make clean] [ant: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil]
verb
Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" [syn: clean, pick]
verb
Clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week" [syn: houseclean, clean house, clean]
verb
Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: cleanse, clean]
verb
Be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily"
verb
Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely"
verb
Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean, strip]
verb
Remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug"
verb
Remove unwanted substances from [syn: scavenge, clean]
verb
Remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"
Definition of 'Clean'
From: GCIDE
- Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), a. [Compar. Cleaner (kl[=e]n"[~e]r); superl. Cleanest.] [OE. clene, AS. cl[=ae]ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. Glair.]
- 1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. [1913 Webster]
- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. --Lev. xxiii. 22. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. [1913 Webster]
- Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li. 10 [1913 Webster]
- That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." --F. Harrison. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. [1913 Webster]
- A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection.
- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
- To make a clean breast. See under Breast. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Clean'
From: GCIDE
- Clean \Clean\, adv.
- 1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." --Shak. "Clean contrary." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- All the people were passed clean over Jordan. --Josh. iii. 17. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." --Henley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Clean'
From: GCIDE
- Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned (kl[=e]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean, a., and cf. Cleanse.] To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse. [1913 Webster]
- To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Clean'
From: Easton
- Clean The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Lev. 11 and Deut. 14:1-21.
- The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal substances, such as (1) blood; (2) the fat covering the intestines, termed the caul; (3) the fat on the intestines, called the mesentery; (4) the fat of the kidneys; and (5) the fat tail of certain sheep (Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:19; 17:10; 19:26).
- The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition of these regulations the reader will find all the details in Lev. 20:24-26; Acts 10:9-16; 11:1-10; Heb. 9:9-14.
Synonyms of 'clean'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- acknowledge,
- adept,
- admit,
- adroit,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- altogether,
- antiseptic,
- apt,
- artistic,
- authoritative,
- bath,
- bathe,
- blameless,
- bleach,
- bleached,
- blotless,
- born,
- bowdlerize,
- bravura,
- bright,
- brighten,
- brilliant,
- broad-based,
- chaste,
- Christian,
- clarify,
- clean,
- clean out,
- clean up,
- clean-cut,
- cleanly,
- cleanse,
- cleansed,
- clear,
- clear out,
- clever,
- come clean,
- comely,
- completely,
- comprehensive,
- confess,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- creditable,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- Daedalian,
- dainty,
- decent,
- decontaminate,
- decontaminated,
- deep-dyed,
- definite,
- deft,
- delouse,
- deplete,
- depurate,
- deterge,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- dirt-free,
- disinfect,
- disinfected,
- do,
- do up,
- downright,
- dry-clean,
- dust,
- dust off,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- empty,
- entirely,
- erect,
- estimable,
- ethical,
- evacuate,
- even,
- excellent,
- exhaust,
- exhaustive,
- expert,
- expurgate,
- fair,
- fancy,
- fastidious,
- faultless,
- fresh,
- freshen,
- full of integrity,
- fully,
- furbish,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- guiltless,
- gut,
- handy,
- high-minded,
- high-principled,
- highly respectable,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immaculate,
- immaculately,
- impeccable,
- inculpable,
- ingenious,
- innocent,
- inoffensive,
- intensive,
- inviolate,
- irreproachable,
- irretrievably,
- irrevocably,
- just,
- kosher,
- launder,
- lave,
- law-abiding,
- law-loving,
- law-revering,
- lustrate,
- magisterial,
- manly,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- modest,
- mop,
- moral,
- neat,
- neaten,
- no mean,
- noble,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- order,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- own up,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- police,
- polish,
- politic,
- principled,
- professional,
- proficient,
- pure,
- pure in heart,
- purehearted,
- purely,
- purge,
- purified,
- purify,
- quick,
- quite,
- quite some,
- radical,
- ready,
- recondition,
- reform,
- regular,
- renew,
- renovate,
- reputable,
- resourceful,
- respectable,
- reveal,
- right,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- ritually pure,
- sanitary,
- sanitize,
- scavenge,
- scour,
- scrub,
- scrubbed,
- sexually innocent,
- shapely,
- sheer,
- shining,
- shiny,
- simple,
- sing,
- skillful,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- snowy,
- some,
- sparkling,
- spill the beans,
- sponge,
- sportsmanlike,
- sportsmanly,
- spotless,
- spotlessly,
- spruce,
- stainless,
- stark,
- statesmanlike,
- steam-clean,
- sterile,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- stylish,
- sweep,
- sweep out,
- sweeping,
- sweet,
- sweeten,
- tactful,
- tahar,
- taintless,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- thoroughly,
- through-and-through,
- tidy,
- total,
- totally,
- trim,
- true-dealing,
- true-devoted,
- true-disposing,
- true-souled,
- true-spirited,
- truehearted,
- tubbed,
- ubiquitous,
- unadulterated,
- unarmed,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- unclutter,
- uncomplicated,
- unconditional,
- uncontaminated,
- uncorrupt,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- unimpeachable,
- uninfected,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unqualified,
- unrelievedly,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- upright,
- uprighteous,
- upstanding,
- utter,
- utterly,
- vacuum,
- veritable,
- virtuoso,
- virtuous,
- wash,
- wash up,
- weaponless,
- well-done,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-shaped,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whiten,
- whitened,
- wholesale,
- wholesome,
- wholly,
- wipe,
- wipe off,
- wipe out,
- wipe up,
- workmanlike,
- worthy,
- yeomanly
Words containing 'Clean'
- Cleaned,
- Cleaning,
- Cleanly,
- Cleanness,
- To clean out,
- clean out,
- clean up,
- A clean breach,
- Clean breach,
- Clean hands,
- clean and jerk,
- clean bomb,
- clean cut,
- clean house,
- clean room,
- clean slate,
- clean sweep,
- cleaning device,
- cleaning equipment,
- cleaning implement,
- cleaning lady,
- cleaning pad,
- cleaning woman,
- come clean,
- dry clean,
- dry cleaning,
- make clean,
- steam clean,
- A clean bill of health,
- Clean-cut,
- Clean-limbed,
- Clean-timbered,
- To make a clean breast,
- clean bill of health,
- clean-burning,
- clean-handed,
- clean-living,
- clean-shaven,
- dry-clean,
- dry-cleaned,
- make a clean breast of,
- spring-clean,
- spring-cleaning,
- vacuum-clean,
- laminar flow clean room