unclean — OET

unclean

adjective

1 they were charged with carrying on a food business in unclean premises:

dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, fouled, foul, impure, adulterated, tainted, tarnished, stained, soiled, begrimed, smeared, unwashed;

dusty, sooty, muddy, scummy;

polluted, contaminated, infected, insanitary, unhygienic, unhealthy, germ-ridden, germy, disease-ridden, septic;

informal yucky, cruddy, icky;

British, informal manky, grotty, gungy;

Australian, New Zealand, informal scungy;

archaic uncleanly;

literary besmirched;

rare feculent.

▷antonyms clean.

2 sex was considered to be naughty or unclean:

sinful, immoral, bad, wicked, evil, corrupt, impure, sullied, unwholesome, sordid, disgusting, debased, degenerate, depraved, licentious, lewd, unchaste, lustful;

archaic uncleanly.

▷antonyms pure.

3 pork is an unclean meat for Muslims:

impure;

forbidden.

▷antonyms halal, kosher.

unclean Oxford Dictionary of English