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Clean vs Stinky - What's the difference?

clean | stinky |

As adjectives the difference between clean and stinky

is that clean is free of dirt or impurities or protruberances while stinky is (slang) having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.

As a noun clean

is removal of dirt.

As a verb clean

is to remove dirt from a place or object.

As an adverb clean

is fully and completely.

clean

English

(wikipedia clean)

Adjective

(er)
  • Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
  • #Not dirty.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean . ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • #In an unmarked condition.
  • #:
  • #(lb) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
  • #Empty.
  • #:
  • #(lb) Having relatively few impurities.
  • #:
  • Free of immorality or criminality.
  • #Pure, especially morally or religiously.
  • #:
  • #*(Bible), (Psalms) li.10:
  • #*:Create in me a clean heart, O God.
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • #*:That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven.
  • #Not having used drugs or alcohol.
  • #:
  • # Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
  • #:
  • #(lb) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
  • #:
  • Smooth, exact, and performed well.
  • :
  • (lb) Cool or neat.
  • :
  • (lb) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
  • :
  • Which doesn’t .
  • :
  • Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
  • :
  • Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxiii.22:
  • *:When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
  • Well-proportioned; shapely.
  • :
  • Ascended without falling.
  • Synonyms

    * (not dirty) * (empty)

    Antonyms

    * dirty * unclean

    Derived terms

    * clean as a hound's tooth * * clean sheet * clean sweep * cleanliness * cleanly * come clean * lick clean * unclean

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Removal of dirt.
  • This place needs a clean .
  • (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove dirt from a place or object.
  • Can you clean the windows today?
  • To tidy up, make a place neat.
  • Clean your room right now!
  • (climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
  • To make things clean in general.
  • She just likes to clean . That’s why I married her.
  • (curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * clean someone’s clock * clean out * clean up * cleaner * houseclean

    Adverb

    (er)
  • Fully and completely.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

    stinky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
  • (slang) Bad, undesirable.
  • * 1991, Theresa P. Gladden, Romancing Susan ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=e-NgFsYD8vEC] Bantam Books, ISBN 055344123X, page 37,
  • […] she walked over to the table and switched off the Walkman as she sat down.
    “Hey!” Nikki yelped. “That was a stinky thing to do. That was my favorite song.”
  • * 2003, Betty Levin, Shoddy Cove ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=KsSG2j82PJAC] HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-052272-0, page 151,
  • “School all year round.” The father groaned. “What a good idea.”
    “Stupid, stinky idea,” a child remarked from across the room.
  • * 2007, Aletha V. Smithson, “Pacifier Breaking” (poem), in As He Was Known ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=8BzMlduE8R8C] AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4259-7805-3, page 172,
  • The binky drifted up and far away,
    To the man in the moon, I heard them say;
    A cute idea but a rotten stinky plan.