Meaning & use

clean

adjective·Everyday

Free from dirt, marks, or impurities; not soiled or contaminated.

See it in a sentence

She kept the kitchen spotlessly clean, even after cooking a big meal.

The lab requires a clean environment to prevent contaminating the samples.

A note on using this word

Clean can also mean morally honest, as in 'a clean record,' or free of errors, as in 'clean code,' beyond its literal sense of tidiness.

Words with a similar meaning

spotlesspuresanitary

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Words with an opposite meaning

dirtyfilthy

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