clean
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *klainī
Old English clǣne
Middle English clene
English clean
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
Inflected forms:
form: cleaner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cleanest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cleans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cleans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cleaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cleaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cleaned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cleaner
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: cleanest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
pos: adj
examples: Are these dishes clean?
 Your room is finally clean!
For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.
Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Very fine, well-sorted, clean sand with no shells.
Scientists believe they have identified the world’s cleanest air, free from particles caused by human activity, located over the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.
gloss: Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
pos: adj
examples: clean steel
gloss: Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
pos: adj
examples: Insert a clean swab into your nose.
"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."
gloss: Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
pos: adj
examples: I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
gloss: Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Our team won, but it wasn't clean.
gloss: Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
pos: adj
gloss: Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
pos: adj
examples: clean land
clean timber
gloss: Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
pos: adj
examples: Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
gloss: Free of immorality or criminality.
pos: adj
examples: Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Ah! let me knot be fool'd, sweet saints. I trust / That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven.
I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.
gloss: Free of immorality or criminality.
pos: adj
examples: go clean
I've been clean this time for eight months.
Ten months sober, I must admit
Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it
Ten months older, I won't give in
Now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it
gloss: Free of immorality or criminality.
pos: adj
examples: It was my dream to be a Soviet spy. The vetting process started, and I was “clean”: no Jews in either my background or my wife's, no relatives abroad, already a member of the Soviet Communist Party, high marks on exams, three foreign languages, no dissident inclinations[…]
"If the Tramells hadn't passed away, we still wouldn't know. The background check was clean." "How can it be clean, for fuck's sake?" I knocked back the whiskey in one swallow. "Eva's mother used Monica's name, birthdate, and family history, but she never opened a line of credit, which is how most identity theft is discovered."
Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
gloss: Free of immorality or criminality.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I'm clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
gloss: Free of immorality or criminality.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.
pos: adj
examples: We are currently clean on OPSEC.
"[Are you sure the] room is clean?" "As a whistle. It's swept at irregular intervals every week." "That still leaves time to plant a bug[…]"
gloss: Empty.
pos: adj
examples: The cargo hold is clean.
Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
gloss: Smooth, exact, and performed well.
pos: adj
examples: I'll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
a clean leap over a fence
a clean left-footed shot into the top corner of the goal
gloss: That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).
pos: adj
examples: clean energy
clean coal
clean tourism
In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet established benchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."
gloss: Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
pos: adj
gloss: Well-proportioned; shapely.
pos: adj
examples: clean limbs
gloss: Cool or neat.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Wow, dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
gloss: Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.
pos: adj
examples: a clean sweep
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
The clean thrill of getting the right answer gave me a sense of efficacy and rootedness. Even so, on tests at school I rarely got good grades, because I had a terrible habit of not showing my work.
gloss: A removal of dirt.
pos: noun
examples: This place needs a clean.
Give the pan a thorough clean.
gloss: The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
pos: noun
gloss: Of heavy metal, clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: When people complained the songs were too hard, Kyle's clean vocals could bail out the band. Adding cleans would set off a chain reaction though - Kyle's crisp, clear presence could be seen as "betraying" the raw assault that Mike inflicts on the fans with his screams and growls.
Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.
The band's more recent output has seen a small amount of cleans find their way in, but for the most part, the Pennsylvania boys rely on the kind of devastating vocal delivery that can be heard on monumental career highlights such as "Marianas Trench."
gloss: To remove dirt from a place or object.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you clean the windows today?
gloss: To tidy up, make a place neat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Clean your room right now!
gloss: To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make things clean in general.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
gloss: To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: Synonym of clean up.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The fishmonger cleaned the mackerel.
gloss: To beat, to thrash; to defeat.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: Fully and completely.
pos: adv
examples: He was stabbed clean through.
You must be clean mad.
The wave went clean over the old lighthouse.
Moreover, I find there are some Words now in French which are turned to a Countersense […] Cocu is taken for one whose Wife is light, and hath made him a passive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckow, doth use to lay her Eggs in another Bird's Nest.
So, since all my pains in his direction were clean thrown away, there was nothing left for me but to scurry back to Marjorie, — so I scurried, and I found the house empty, no one there, and Marjorie gone.
It strikes me that you have come off uncommonly easy, seeing as how things were. No mess, no breakages, no odds and ends from every room that you can't remember until it's too late to claim. Just one big lot taken clean.
A feat sometimes achieved by outstanding local athletes is to throw a cricket ball clean over the top [of the viaduct].
Now they were faced with the problem of a northerly blow, which could soon send a heavy swell clean into the bay.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
Synonyms: clean
clean as a bean
clean as a hound's tooth
clean as a new penny
clean as a new pin
clean as a whistle
immaculate
pristine
spick-and-span
spotless
squeaky clean
stainless
unsoiled
unsullied
Antonyms: dirty
unclean
Related words: pure
make clean
dry-clean
vacuum-clean
Derived words: a new broom sweeps clean
bioclean
broom-clean
certificate of clean criminal record
cleanaholic
clean as a bean
clean as a hound's tooth
clean as a new penny
clean as a new pin
clean as a whistle
clean bill of health
clean bomb
clean bowl
clean break
clean bulk
clean chit
clean coal
clean code
clean coder
clean copy
clean eating
clean electricity
clean fashion
clean feed
clean fetish
clean fill
clean float
cleanfluencer
clean freak
clean girl
clean-handed
clean hands
clean house
cleanish
clean-label
clean label
clean language
clean-limbed
clean link
clean-living
cleanly
clean meat
clean money
cleanness
clean potato
clean power
clean price
cleanroom
clean room
clean-shaved
cleanshaven
clean sheet
clean shell
clean skin
cleanskin
clean slate
cleantech
clean teen
cleanth
clean-timbered
clean URL
come clean
day-clean
eye-clean
hyperclean
keep one's nose clean
lick clean
make a clean breast
new brooms sweep clean
nonclean
show a clean pair of heels
squeaky clean
start with a clean sheet of paper
superclean
super-clean
ultraclean
unclean
wipe the slate clean
overclean
the arse has gone clean out of 'er
the arse is clean out of 'er
clean-up
deep clean
power clean
spring clean
misclean
cleanability
cleanable
clean down
cleaner
clean off
clean one's plate
clean out
clean someone’s clock
clean up
clean up after
dry-clean
get one's clock cleaned
houseclean
preclean
rage clean
reclean
self-cleaning
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: skoon
lang: Albanian
word: pastër
lang: Southern Altai
word: ару
roman: aru
lang: Amharic
word: ንጹሕ
roman: nəṣuḥ
lang: Arabic
word: نَظِيف
roman: naẓīf
lang: Arabic
word: نضيف
roman: naḍīf
lang: Aragonese
word: limpio
lang: Aragonese
word: neto
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܕܸܟ݂ܝܵܐ
roman: diḳya
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܬܲܡܸܙ
roman: tāmiz
lang: Armenian
word: մաքուր
roman: makʻur
lang: Aromanian
word: curat
lang: Aromanian
word: albu (roa-rup)
lang: Aromanian
word: spilat
lang: Aromanian
word: chischin
lang: Aromanian
word: spastru
lang: Aromanian
word: pãstrit
lang: Assamese
word: চফা
roman: sopha
lang: Assamese
word: চাফা
roman: sapha
lang: Assamese
word: চাফ চিকুণ
roman: saph sikun
lang: Assamese
word: চিকুণ
roman: sikun
lang: Assamese
word: পৰিষ্কাৰ
roman: poriskar
lang: Asturian
word: llimpiu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təmiz
lang: Azerbaijani
word: arı
lang: Bashkir
word: таҙа
roman: taźa
lang: Basque
word: garbi
lang: Belarusian
word: чы́сты
roman: čýsty
lang: Bengali
word: পরিষ্কার
roman: poriśkar
lang: Bengali
word: সাফ
roman: śaph
lang: Central Bikol
word: malinig
lang: Breton
word: dilastez
lang: Bulgarian
word: чист
roman: čist
lang: Burmese
word: သန့်
roman: san.
lang: Catalan
word: net
lang: Chechen
word: цӏена
roman: cʼena
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏓᏅᎦᎸᏓ
roman: udanvgalvda
lang: Chickasaw
word: chifata
lang: Chickasaw
word: chofata
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 乾淨 /干净
roman: gon¹ zeng⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乾淨 /干净
roman: gānjìng
lang: Chuvash
word: таса
roman: tas̬a
lang: West Circassian
word: къабзэ
roman: qabzɛ
lang: Cornish
word: glan
lang: Czech
word: čistý
lang: Danish
word: ren
lang: Dutch
word: schoon
lang: Dutch
word: proper
lang: Egyptian
word: wab-mw
roman: wꜥb
lang: Esperanto
word: pura
lang: Estonian
word: puhas
lang: Faroese
word: reinur
lang: Finnish
word: puhdas
lang: French
word: propre
lang: French
word: net
lang: Friulian
word: net
lang: Galician
word: limpo
lang: Georgian
word: სუფთა
roman: supta
lang: German
word: sauber
lang: German
word: rein
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃
roman: hlutrs
lang: Greek
word: καθαρός
roman: katharós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: καθαρός
roman: katharós
lang: Hausa
word: tsari
lang: Hawaiian
word: maʻemaʻe
lang: Hebrew
word: נָקִי
roman: nakí
lang: Hindi
word: साफ़
roman: sāf
lang: Hindi
word: स्वच्छ
roman: svacch
lang: White Hmong
word: huv
lang: Hungarian
word: tiszta
lang: Icelandic
word: hreinn
lang: Ido
word: neta
lang: Igbo
word: ocha
lang: Igbo
word: ucha
lang: Indonesian
word: bersih
lang: Ingush
word: цӏена
roman: cʼena
lang: Interlingua
word: munde
lang: Interlingua
word: nette
lang: Irish
word: glan
lang: Italian
word: pulito
lang: Japanese
word: 清い
roman: kiyoi
lang: Japanese
word: 清潔な
roman: seiketsu na
lang: Japanese
word: 綺麗な
roman: kirei na
lang: Javanese
word: resik
lang: Kashmiri
word: صاف
roman: sāf
lang: Kazakh
word: таза
roman: taza
lang: Kazakh
word: саф
roman: saf
lang: Khmer
word: ស្អាត
roman: sʼaat
lang: Korean
word: 깨끗하다
roman: kkaekkeuthada
lang: Korean
word: 맑다
roman: makda
lang: Kumyk
word: таза
roman: taza
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پاک
roman: pak
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خاوێن
roman: xawên
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: paqij
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аруу
roman: aruu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: пакиз
roman: pakiz
lang: Kyrgyz
word: таза
roman: taza
lang: Ladin
word: nët
lang: Lao
word: ສະອາດ
roman: sa ʼāt
lang: Latin
word: pūrus
lang: Latin
word: mundus
lang: Latin
word: tersus
lang: Latvian
word: tīrs
lang: Lithuanian
word: švarus
lang: Lombard
word: nett
lang: Luxembourgish
word: propper
lang: Macedonian
word: чист
roman: čist
lang: Maguindanao
word: matilak
lang: Malay
word: bersih
lang: Malayalam
word: വൃത്തിയായ
roman: vr̥ttiyāya
lang: Malayalam
word: ശുദ്ധ
roman: śuddha
lang: Maltese
word: nadif
lang: Māori
word: mā
lang: Marathi
word: स्वच्छ
roman: svaccha
lang: Marathi
word: साफ
roman: sāph
lang: Meänkieli
word: puhas
lang: Mizo
word: fai
lang: Mongolian
word: цэвэр
roman: cever
lang: Nepali
word: सफा
roman: saphā
lang: Norman
word: net
lang: Norman
word: naette
lang: Norman
word: propre
lang: Occitan
word: net
lang: Church Slavic
word: чистъ
roman: čistŭ
lang: Old English
word: clǣne
lang: Ossetian
word: сыгъдӕг
roman: syǧdæg
lang: Pashto
word: پاک
roman: pâk
lang: Persian
word: پاک
roman: pâk
lang: Persian
word: تمیز
roman: tamiz
lang: Plautdietsch
word: rein
lang: Polabian
word: caistĕ
lang: Polish
word: czysty
lang: Portuguese
word: limpo
lang: Portuguese
word: asseado
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸਾਫ਼
roman: sāf
lang: Punjabi
word: سُتْھرا
roman: suthrā
lang: Punjabi
word: صاف
roman: ṣāf
lang: Punjabi
word: صاف سُتْھرا
roman: ṣāf suthrā
lang: Quechua
word: llimphu
lang: Romanian
word: curat
lang: Russian
word: чи́стый
roman: čístyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: glan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чи̏ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čȉst
lang: Shor
word: арығ
roman: arığ
lang: Sicilian
word: pulitu
lang: Sindhi
word: صاف
roman: sāf
lang: Sinhalese
word: පිරිසුදු
roman: pirisudu
lang: Slovak
word: čistý
lang: Slovene
word: čist
lang: Somali
word: nadiif
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: cysty
lang: Spanish
word: limpio
lang: Spanish
word: límpido
lang: Swahili
word: nadhifu
lang: Swahili
word: safi
lang: Swedish
word: ren
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠌꠣꠚꠣ
roman: safá
lang: Tagalog
word: malinis
lang: Tajik
word: пок
roman: pok
lang: Tajik
word: тоза
roman: toza
lang: Tajik
word: покиза
roman: pokiza
lang: Tajik
word: соф
roman: sof
lang: Tajik
word: тамиз
roman: tamiz
lang: Tamil
word: சுத்தம்
roman: cuttam
lang: Tatar
word: таза
roman: taza
lang: Tatar
word: саф
roman: saf
lang: Tatar
word: чиста
roman: çista
lang: Thai
word: สะอาด
roman: sà-àat
lang: Tibetan
word: གཙང་མ
roman: gtsang ma
lang: Turkish
word: temiz
lang: Turkish
word: arı
lang: Turkish
word: arın
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آری
roman: arı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تمیز
roman: temiz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صفی
roman: safi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پاك
roman: pak
lang: Turkmen
word: tämiz
lang: Tuvan
word: арыг
roman: arıg
lang: Ukrainian
word: чи́стий
roman: čýstyj
lang: Unami
word: pilsi
lang: Urdu
word: صاف
roman: sāf
lang: Uzbek
word: toza
lang: Uzbek
word: pok
lang: Uzbek
word: pokiza
lang: Venetan
word: néto
lang: Venetan
word: net
lang: Vietnamese
word: sạch sẽ
lang: Vietnamese
word: sạch
lang: Volapük
word: klinik
lang: Welsh
word: glân
lang: Yakut
word: ыраас
roman: ïraas
lang: Yiddish
word: ריין
roman: reyn
lang: Afrikaans
word: skoon
lang: French
word: clean
lang: German
word: clean
lang: Italian
word: pulito
lang: Portuguese
word: limpo
lang: Spanish
word: limpio
lang: Swedish
word: ren