Scrabble & Words with friends points
- clean is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- clean is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- clean is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10
Definition of clean
- make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from (verb)
Examples
- The dentist cleaned my teeth
Synonyms
- make clean
- free of restrictions or qualifications (adjective)
Examples
- a clean bill of health
Synonyms
- clear
- free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed (adjective)
Examples
- he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek
- a clean throw
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- neat
- (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections (adjective)
Examples
- a clean manuscript
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- fair
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing (verb)
Examples
- clean up before you see your grandparents
- clean your fingernails before dinner
Synonyms
- cleanse
- not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination (adjective)
Examples
- a clean fuel
- cleaner and more efficient engines
- the tactical bomb is reasonably clean
Synonyms
- uncontaminating
- completely; used as intensifiers (adverb)
Examples
- clean forgot the appointment
Synonyms
- plum
- plumb
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play (adjective)
Examples
- a clean fight
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- sporting
- sportsmanlike
- sporty
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits (verb)
Synonyms
- pick
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead (noun)
Synonyms
- clean and jerk
- (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers (adjective)
Examples
- good clean fun
- a clean joke
Synonyms
- unobjectionable
- (of a surface) not written or printed on (adjective)
Examples
- a clean page
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- blank
- white
- morally pure (adjective)
Examples
- led a clean life
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- clean-living
- free from impurities (adjective)
Examples
- clean water
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- fresh
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims (adjective)
Examples
- efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings
Synonyms
- clear
- light
- unclouded
- remove unwanted substances from (verb)
Synonyms
- scavenge
- clean and tidy up the house (verb)
Examples
- She housecleans every week
Synonyms
- clean house
- houseclean
- free from sepsis or infection (adjective)
Examples
- a clean (or uninfected) wound
Synonyms
- uninfected
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely (verb)
Examples
- The boys cleaned the sandwich platters
- The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm
Synonyms
- strip
- in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating (adverb)
Synonyms
- fair
- fairly
- be cleanable (verb)
Examples
- This stove cleans easily
- deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. (verb)
Examples
- The other players cleaned him completely
- free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits (adjective)
Examples
- children with clean shining faces
- clean white shirts
- clean dishes
- a spotlessly clean house
- cats are clean animals
- free of drugs (adjective)
Examples
- after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years
- not carrying concealed weapons (adjective)
- (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense (adjective)
Examples
- a clean voting record
- a clean driver's license
- remove shells or husks from (verb)
Examples
- clean grain before milling it
- remove while making clean (verb)
- ritually clean or pure (adjective)
- thorough and without qualification (adjective)
Examples
- a clean getaway
- a clean sweep
- a clean break
- without difficulties or problems (adjective)
Examples
- a clean test flight
See definition of clean in Merriam Webster