clean
free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,428 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,841 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits children with clean shining facesclean white shirts
- free of restrictions or qualifications also: clear a clean bill of healtha clear winner
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims also: clear, light, unclouded efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordingsclear laughter like a waterfall
- free from impurities also: fresh clean waterfresh air
- (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense a clean voting recorda clean driver's license
- ritually clean or pure
clean in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The great engineer smiled with clean pleasure.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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When first I saw you, nice and clean, It was a sight to show the Queen!
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Dicky was a flaxen chap, too, and shaved clean and had a beautiful face without a doubt.
The Torch and Other Tales · Eden Phillpotts · Chapter 1
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Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be.
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1
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I was carried into it; and, an hour later, I was admitted at the hospital, and laid on a clean, comfortable bed.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1