Clean

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1. Adjective form

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

2. Adjective form

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

3. Adjective form

Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

4. Adjective form

Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

5. Adjective form

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

6. Adjective form

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

7. Adjective form

Free from ceremonial defilement.

8. Adjective form

Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.

9. Adjective form

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

10. Adverb

Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

11. Adverb

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

12. Adjective

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

13. Adjective

not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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