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cleansed

ADJECTIVE

clean

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blank bright clear elegant fresh graceful hygienic immaculate neat orderly pure simple spotless squeaky clean tidy unblemished washed

STRONG

laundered shining sparkling speckless stainless trim vanilla

WEAK

delicate dirtless faultless flawless neat as a button neat as a pin sanitary snowy spick-and-span taintless unpolluted unsmudged unsoiled unspotted unstained unsullied untarnished well-kept

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cluttered dirty disorderly disorganized filthy foul sloppy slovenly soiled tainted unclean unsterile untidy

STRONG

complicated contaminated

WEAK

adulterated besmirched incomplete indefinite muddled polluted stained tarnished

ADJECTIVE

refined

Synonyms

STRONGEST

processed pure purified

STRONG

aerated clarified clean distilled drained expurgated filtered rarefied strained washed

WEAK

boiled down

Antonyms

STRONG

dirty

WEAK

corrupt dirtied polluted uncivilized uncultured unrefined unsophisticated

ADJECTIVE

unsoiled

Synonyms

WEAK

antiseptic cleanly clear delicate dirtless elegant faultless flawless fresh graceful hygienic immaculate laundered neat neat as a button neat as a pin orderly pure sanitary shining snowy sparkling speckless spick-and-span spotless squeaky clean stainless taintless tidy trim unblemished unpolluted unsmudged unspotted unstained unsullied untarnished vanilla washed well-kept white

ADJECTIVE

washed

Synonyms

STRONG

laved showered sponged

Antonyms

WEAK

dirty soiled

Example Sentences

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Will the doors of perception ever be cleansed?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

The 2008 stock market crash and the pandemic-related crash in 2020 cleansed the market of at least some of its froth, making many hostile bids more inviting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

“That cleansed the space of a lot of weaker companies,” he says.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

The purpose of earthly life for a good 16th-century Christian was to prepare for life with God in heaven, their soul cleansed of mortal sin.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025

“To atone for this crime, you will drink the water that cleansed us from our labors.”

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

cleansed

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