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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unclean \Un*clean"\, adjective [AS. uncl?ne. See {Unnot}, and {Clean}.]
1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. --Num. xix. 11.
3. Morally impure. ''Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate and unclean affections.'' --Perkins. -- {Un*clean"ly}, adverb -- {Un*clean"ness}, n.
{Unclean animals} (Script.), those which the Israelites were forbidden to use for food.
{Unclean spirit} (Script.), a wicked spirit; a demon. --Mark i. 27.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unclean
adjective
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: ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn: {impure}] [ant: {clean}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "unclean": Adamic, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, backsliding, base, bawdy, beastly, beneath contempt, besmirched, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, carnal, common, contaminated, contemptible, corrupted, defiled, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, erring, fallen, fetid, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frail, fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, infected, infirm, ithyphallic, lamentable, lapsed, lewd, loathsome, lousy, lurid, maculate, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, nonkosher, notorious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, of easy virtue, offensive, outrageous, peccable, pitiable, pitiful, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, rank, raunchy, recidivist, recidivistic, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, sad, salacious, scandalous, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, sordid, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted, terrible, too bad, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, uncleanly, ungodly, ungood, unprintable, unpure, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, villainous, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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