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Antonyms for cleanest

Grammar : Adj
Spell : kleen
Phonetic Transcription : klin

Definition of cleanest

Origin :
  • Old English clæne "free from dirt or filth; pure, chaste, innocent; open, in the open," of beasts, "ritually safe to eat," from West Germanic *klainoz "clear, pure" (cf. Old Saxon kleni "dainty, delicate," Old Frisian klene "small," Old High German kleini "delicate, fine, small," German klein "small;" English preserves the original Germanic sense), from PIE root *gel- "bright, gleaming" (cf. Greek glene "eyeball," Old Irish gel "bright").
  • "Largely replaced by clear, pure in the higher senses" [Weekley], but as a verb (mid-15c.) it has largely usurped what once belonged to cleanse. Meaning "whole, entire" is from c.1300 (clean sweep in the figurative sense is from 1821). Sense of "innocent" is from c.1300; that of "not lewd" is from 1867; that of "not carrying anything forbidden" is from 1938; that of "free of drug addiction" is from 1950s. To come clean "confess" is from 1919, American English.
  • adj not dirty; uncluttered
  • adj sterile
  • adj chaste, virtuous
  • adj precise, sharp
  • adj complete, thorough
Example sentences :
  • Yet there is truth in what he says, for, as you know well, the song was not of the cleanest.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • It was the freshest and cleanest world he had ever seen and she was one with it.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
  • He can play any position on the diamond, and is one of the cleanest men in the business.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Cruise » by Burt L. Standish
  • Geneva is one of the finest, cleanest, and most charming towns in the world.
  • Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
  • The town is well built, and the cleanest I have yet seen since leaving Europe.
  • Extract from : « In Eastern Seas » by J. J. Smith
  • His coat is soiled and torn, his cravat is put on awry, and his linen is none of the cleanest.
  • Extract from : « City Crimes » by Greenhorn
  • This was the cleanest and most wholesome place I ever worked in.
  • Extract from : « An Anarchist Woman » by Hutchins Hapgood
  • He is the truest, cleanest, most right-seeking man I have ever seen.
  • Extract from : « Theft » by Jack London
  • She came up, smoothing down her apron with her hands, which were not of the cleanest.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Artist. » by F.M. S.
  • It's the biggest, cleanest, quietest place I could even dream of!
  • Extract from : « Dorothy » by Evelyn Raymond

Synonyms for cleanest

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