unclean

adj 1: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept

sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty

slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet

on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining

is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while

her sisters preened themselves" [syn: {dirty}, {soiled}]

[ant: {clean}]

2: (religion) ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is

unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn: {impure}] [ant: {clean}]

clean

1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in

the small", that is, a design or implementation that may not

hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably

intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside.

The antonym is "grungy" or {crufty}.

2. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce

clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the

garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."

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(1994-12-12)