🧩 clean

Looks & Qualities · chosen synonyms, sense by sense

adjectivefree of dirt; clear of wrongdoing (a clean record)

spotlessimmaculatehygienicsterilepristinescrubbed

Sterile is medical, pristine is almost accusatory in its perfection, spotless is the promise the detergent makes.

adjectivehonest, lawful (clean money)

legitimatehonestlawfulclearunblemished

The opposite is dirty money — the metaphor of the launderer, turned around.

The other end: messydirty

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The rings above were chosen by hand for tukuk.org, sense by sense, and checked against usage rather than a synonym database dump. The dictionary tool can list WordNet’s full synonym sets for any of 200,000 words; this shelf keeps the forty words where choosing is genuinely hard and says how.