unclean

English

Etymology

From Middle English unclene, from Old English unclǣne, equivalent to un- +‎ clean.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkliːn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

unclean (comparative uncleaner, superlative uncleanest)

Dirty, soiled or foul.
Not moral or chaste.
Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:unclean

Derived terms

unclean hands

Translations

dirty, soiled or foul

Bulgarian: мръсен (bg) (mrǎsen)
Catalan: brut (ca)
Danish: urenlig
Dutch: onrein (nl)
Estonian: must (et), räpane
Finnish: likainen (fi), epäpuhdas (fi)
Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (unhrains), 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍃 (gawamms)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀκάθαρτος (akáthartos)
Latin: impūrus
Latvian: netīrs (lv)
Manx: neuglen
Maori: poke (mi), paru, paruparu, maniheko
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ureinslig, urenslig

Nynorsk: ureinsleg
Ottoman Turkish: پیس (pis), مردار (murdar)
Pashto: سخا (ps) (sxâ), خيرن (ps) (xirën)
Plautdietsch: orrein
Portuguese: sujo (pt)
Rapa Nui: havahava
Romanian: murdar (ro)
Russian: нечи́стый (ru) (nečístyj), гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нѐчист, пр̏љав

Roman: nèčist (sh), pȑljav (sh)
Sundanese: lolo
Swedish: smutsig (sv), oren (sv)

not moral or chaste

Bulgarian: неморален (bg) (nemoralen)
Catalan: impur (ca)
Dutch: onrein (nl)
Estonian: räpane
Finnish: likainen (fi)
French: impur (fr)
German: unrein (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀκάθαρτος (akáthartos)
Latvian: nešķīsts, neķītrs
Maore Comorian: -a peu
Pashto: سخا (ps) (sxâ)
Plautdietsch: orrein
Portuguese: impuro (pt)
Romanian: imoral (ro), necurat (ro)
Russian: амора́льный (ru) (amorálʹnyj), непристо́йный (ru) (nepristójnyj), гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj), по́шлый (ru) (póšlyj)
Swedish: oren (sv), snuskig (sv)

ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit

Bulgarian: нечестив (bg) (nečestiv)
Dutch: onrein (nl)
Finnish: saastainen (fi), epäpuhdas (fi)
French: impur (fr)
German: unrein (de), gemein (de) (archaic)
Greek:
Ancient: κοινός (koinós)
Hebrew: טָמֵא (he) (tamé)
Hungarian: tisztátalan (hu)
Maore Comorian: -a ntsama
Plautdietsch: orrein
Swahili: -chafu (sw), najisi

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