| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particles of dirt |
| Synonyms: | dust, foreign matter, gravel, lumps, pebbles, powder, sand |
| Main Entry: | contaminant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminator |
| Synonyms: | adulterant, contamination, foreign matter, impurity, poison, pollutant, toxin |
| Main Entry: | contaminator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
| Synonyms: | adulterant, contamination, foreign matter, impurity, poison, pollutant, toxin |
| Main Entry: | uncleanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impurity |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foreign matter, foulness, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, unwholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | unwholesomeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impurity |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foreign matter, foulness, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adulterous, anacreontic, bawdy, bestial, broad, carnal, carnal, concupiscent, cyprian, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, equivocal, erotic, fornicatory, frail, free, fulsome, gallant, gay, gross, immodest, impure, incestuous, incontinent, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, licentious, lickerish, lididinous, light, loose, lupanarian, lustful, meretricious, nerotic, no better than she should be, not to be mentioned to ears polite, obscene, of easy virtue, of loose character, on the loose, on the streets, on the town, paphian, pornerastic, pornographic, profligate, prurient, rakish, rampant, randy, ribald, riggish, ruttish, salacious, scortatory, sensual, sexotropic, shameless, smutty, subagitatory, supinovalent, unchaste, unclean, voluptuous, wanton
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| Concept: | Impurity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-nouns
impurity; uncleanness, filth; immodesty; grossness; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque., concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism., incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation., seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest., social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, criminal conversation; free love., seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel.
-verbs
be impure; intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery.
-adjectives
impure; unclean (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risqué, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic., concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty., unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose., adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
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| Antonyms: | purity |
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| Concept: | Uncleanness. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
uncleanness; impurity; immundity, immundicity; impurity [of mind] [more]., defilement, contamination; defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo., slovenry; slovenliness, squalor., dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dustman, sweep; beast., dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle., sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders; recrement, slag; scum, froth., hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar., riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch., mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U. S.]., spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; exereta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost., dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole., sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.
-verbs
be unclean, become unclean; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad., render unclean; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease; dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt (injure); cover with dust; drabble in the mud; roil., wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
-adjectives
unclean, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.]., uncleanly, slovenly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; grody to the max; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly., nasty, coarse, foul, impure, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid., moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese., crapulous (intemperate); gross (impure in mind); fimetarious, fimicolous.
-phrases
"they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].
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| Antonyms: | cleanness |
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