Clean: Definition and part of speech

Clean

  1. adv. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
  2. superl. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
  3. superl. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
  4. superl. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
  5. superl. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
  6. superl. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
  7. superl. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
  8. superl. Free from ceremonial defilement.
  9. superl. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
  10. superl. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
  11. 1adv. 1 Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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