V. WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS; INDIVIDUAL VOLITION
II. Prospective Volition
2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience
Cleanness.
[Antonyms: uncleanness.]
[Nouns] cleanness, cleanliness; purity; cleaning; purification, defecation; purgation, lustration; detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation; ablution, lavation, colature; disinfection; drainage, sewerage.
lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings [U.S.], white gloves.
brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter.
napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary; doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.
cover, drugget.
wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier; disinfectant; aperient; benzene, benzine, benzol, benolin; bleaching powder, bleach, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative.
[Verbs] be clean, render clean.
clean, cleanse; mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.
wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.
disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.
sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.
rout out, clear out, sweep out; make a clean sweep of.
[Adjectives] clean, cleanly; pure; immaculale; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut.
neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; kempt.
abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
