unclean

adj
/ʌnˈkliːn/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from unclǣne
  2. inherited from unclene

Definitions

  1. Dirty, soiled or foul.

    • They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food. A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.
  2. Not moral or chaste.

    • I stand amazed in the presence / Of Jesus, the Nazarene, / And wonder how He could love me, / A sinner, condemend, unclean.
  3. Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unclean. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unclean02impure03pure04unsullied05sullied06soiled07defiled08dirty

A definitional loop anchored at unclean. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at unclean

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA