clean
/kliːn/ adjective A1- Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled. · Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.
- Of metal, having relatively few impurities. · clean steel
- Not muscular due to steroid use. · I don't think he's clean, look at those traps.
- Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease. · Insert a clean swab into your nose.
- Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). · I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- Of a victory or performance: without any blemishes such as submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc. · Our team won, but it wasn't clean.
- Of a route, ascended without falling.
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects. · clean land· clean timber
Comparative cleaner · Superlative cleanest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
A tall, sunburned, capable-looking, clean-shaved man looked in at us.
“This is clean beyond me, Mr.
It’s clean against common sense!
White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
Other matches
Learn clean in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.