Cleanliness is a concept that refers to the state of being clean, tidy, and free from dirt or any other contaminants. While cleanliness is a desirable trait, some antonyms could be used to describe a lack of cleanliness. Some of the antonyms for cleanliness include dirtiness, messiness, uncleanliness, filthiness, and sloppiness. Whereas cleanliness refers to maintaining a high level of hygiene, the opposite - dirtiness - suggests a lack of order, organization, and cleanliness. Messiness often connotes disorder and untidiness, while filthiness implies unhygienic conditions. Uncleanliness also suggests lacking hygiene, while sloppiness refers to being careless or negligent in cleaning. Overall, while cleanliness is an important trait that should be encouraged, these antonyms highlight aspects to avoid.

What are the antonyms for Cleanliness?

• n.

  • adulteration
  • contamination
  .
  • attribute
  • uncleanliness
  .
  • blemish
  • Cicatrices
  ,
  • Maculae
  ,
  • Nevi
  ,
  • beauty spot
  ,
  • beauty spots
  ,
  • blackhead
  ,
  • blackheads
  ,
  • blot landscape
  ,
  • blot on landscape
  ,
  • blot on the landscape
  ,
  • blot the landscape
  ,
  • cicatrix
  ,
  • dis coloration
  ,
  • dis colorations
  ,
  • dis honor
  ,
  • dis honors
  ,
  • dis-coloration
  ,
  • dis-colorations
  ,
  • dis-honor
  ,
  • dis-honors
  ,
  • hickey
  ,
  • lentigines
  ,
  • macula
  ,
  • maculations
  ,
  • nevus
  ,
  • nodule
  ,
  • whiteheads
  .
  • blemish, imperfection
  • defect
  .
  • blight
  • Funguses
  ,
  • de cay
  ,
  • de cays
  ,
  • de-cay
  ,
  • de-cays
  ,
  • fungi
  ,
  • fungus
  ,
  • infestations
  ,
  • witherings
  .
  • brand
  • mark cain
  .
  • cleanness
  • dirtiness
  ,
  • filth
  ,
  • griminess
  .
  • coloring
  • tincture
  .
  • contagion
  • trans mission
  ,
  • trans missions
  ,
  • trans-mission
  .
  • contaminant
  • impurity
  .
  • contamination
  • Poisonings
  ,
  • dirtyings
  ,
  • dis ease
  ,
  • dis eases
  ,
  • dis-ease
  ,
  • dis-eases
  ,
  • radio activation
  ,
  • radio-activation
  ,
  • radio-activations
  ,
  • radioactivation
  ,
  • radioactivations
  ,
  • rottenness
  ,
  • rottennesses
  ,
  • spoliation
  ,
  • spoliations
  .
  • contamination, corruption
  • taint
  .
  • corruption
  • Briberies
  ,
  • Lubricity
  ,
  • breach of trust
  ,
  • breach trust
  ,
  • bribery
  ,
  • bribings
  ,
  • de basement
  ,
  • de basements
  ,
  • de cadence
  ,
  • de cadences
  ,
  • de generation
  ,
  • de generations
  ,
  • de gradation
  ,
  • de gradations
  ,
  • de moralization
  ,
  • de moralizations
  ,
  • de-basement
  ,
  • de-basements
  ,
  • de-cadence
  ,
  • de-cadences
  ,
  • de-generation
  ,
  • de-generations
  ,
  • de-gradation
  ,
  • de-gradations
  ,
  • de-moralization
  ,
  • de-moralizations
  ,
  • doctorings
  ,
  • falsification
  ,
  • falsifications
  ,
  • fiddlings
  ,
  • fraudulencies
  ,
  • jobberies
  ,
  • jobbery
  ,
  • looseness
  ,
  • loosenesses
  ,
  • lubricities
  ,
  • mis representation
  ,
  • mis representations
  ,
  • mis-representation
  ,
  • noxiousness
  ,
  • noxiousnesses
  ,
  • on take
  ,
  • profiteering
  ,
  • profiteerings
  ,
  • shady deal
  ,
  • shady deals
  ,
  • sinfulness
  ,
  • sinfulnesses
  ,
  • un scrupulousnesses
  ,
  • un-scrupulousness
  ,
  • un-scrupulousnesses
  ,
  • unscrupulousness
  ,
  • unscrupulousnesses
  .
  • crud
  • skank
  ,
  • skanks
  .
  • damage
  • cave in
  ,
  • cave ins
  ,
  • cave-in
  ,
  • cave-ins
  ,
  • cavein
  ,
  • caveins
  ,
  • de privation
  ,
  • de privations
  ,
  • de-privation
  ,
  • de-privations
  ,
  • dis service
  ,
  • dis services
  ,
  • dis-service
  ,
  • dis-services
  ,
  • marrings
  ,
  • mis chief
  ,
  • mis chiefs
  ,
  • mutilation
  ,
  • mutilations
  ,
  • out rages
  ,
  • out-rage
  ,
  • out-rages
  ,
  • re verse
  ,
  • re-verse
  ,
  • ruinings
  ,
  • wreckings
  .
  • debris
  • de bris
  ,
  • de brises
  ,
  • de-bris
  ,
  • de-brises
  ,
  • re main
  ,
  • re mains
  ,
  • re-fuses
  ,
  • re-main
  ,
  • re-mains
  .
  • defect
  • in juries
  ,
  • in jury
  ,
  • in-jury
  ,
  • mis take
  ,
  • mis takes
  ,
  • mis-take
  ,
  • mis-takes
  ,
  • rough spot
  ,
  • rough spots
  ,
  • un soundness
  ,
  • un-soundness
  ,
  • un-soundnesses
  .
  • dirt
  • Double dealing
  ,
  • Feculence
  ,
  • doubledealing
  ,
  • dreck
  ,
  • drecks
  ,
  • feculences
  ,
  • fourberie
  ,
  • fourberies
  ,
  • gook
  ,
  • gooks
  ,
  • grime
  ,
  • gunks
  ,
  • in decencies
  ,
  • in decency
  ,
  • in-decencies
  ,
  • in-decency
  ,
  • intimate intelligence
  ,
  • intimate intelligences
  ,
  • juicy morsel
  ,
  • juicy morsels
  ,
  • loam
  ,
  • loams
  ,
  • lowdown
  ,
  • scuz
  ,
  • scuzzes
  ,
  • sleaze
  ,
  • sleazes
  ,
  • soot
  ,
  • the lowdown
  ,
  • the lowdowns
  .
  • dirtiness
  • impureness
  ,
  • impurenesses
  ,
  • un cleanlinesses
  ,
  • un-cleanliness
  ,
  • un-cleanlinesses
  ,
  • uncleanlinesses
  .
  • dirty state
  • filthiness
  ,
  • foulness
  .
  • disease; plague
  • blight
  .
  • disgrace
  • Ingloriousness
  ,
  • de basing
  ,
  • de-basing
  ,
  • debasings
  ,
  • dis credit
  ,
  • dis credits
  ,
  • dis esteem
  ,
  • dis esteems
  ,
  • dis favor
  ,
  • dis favors
  ,
  • dis grace
  ,
  • dis graces
  ,
  • dis respect
  ,
  • dis respects
  ,
  • dis-credit
  ,
  • dis-credits
  ,
  • dis-esteem
  ,
  • dis-esteems
  ,
  • dis-favor
  ,
  • dis-favors
  ,
  • dis-grace
  ,
  • dis-graces
  ,
  • dis-respect
  ,
  • dis-respects
  ,
  • disbarment
  ,
  • disbarments
  ,
  • humblings
  ,
  • in gloriousness
  ,
  • in gloriousnesses
  ,
  • in-gloriousness
  ,
  • in-gloriousnesses
  ,
  • ingloriousnesses
  ,
  • putdown
  .
  • dishonesty
  • corruption
  .
  • dishonor, shame
  • disrepute
  .
  • disrepute
  • dis repute
  ,
  • dis reputes
  ,
  • dis-repute
  ,
  • dis-reputes
  ,
  • ill fames
  ,
  • ill favor
  ,
  • ill favors
  ,
  • un popularities
  ,
  • un popularity
  ,
  • unpopularities
  .
  • dust
  • dust bunnies
  ,
  • dust bunny
  ,
  • gilings
  ,
  • granule
  ,
  • granules
  ,
  • lint
  ,
  • loess
  ,
  • loesses
  ,
  • sand
  ,
  • sands
  .
  • filth
  • crud
  ,
  • foul matter
  ,
  • foul matters
  ,
  • ordure
  ,
  • putridities
  ,
  • putridity
  .
  • flaw
  • blemish
  ,
  • imperfection
  .
  • garbage
  • Sweepings
  ,
  • bits and piece
  ,
  • bits and pieces
  ,
  • bits piece
  ,
  • bits pieces
  ,
  • odds ends
  ,
  • refuse
  ,
  • scrapings
  ,
  • trash
  .
  • grime, impurity
  • dirt
  .
  • imperfection
  • de merit
  ,
  • de merits
  ,
  • de-merit
  ,
  • de-merits
  ,
  • in adequacies
  ,
  • in adequacy
  ,
  • in completeness
  ,
  • in completenesses
  ,
  • in sufficiencies
  ,
  • in sufficiency
  ,
  • in-adequacies
  ,
  • in-adequacy
  ,
  • in-completeness
  ,
  • in-sufficiencies
  ,
  • in-sufficiency
  ,
  • incompleteness
  ,
  • incompletenesses
  .
  • impurity
  • foreign matter
  ,
  • foreign matters
  ,
  • uncleanness
  ,
  • unwholesomeness
  .
  • infection
  • contagion
  .
  • injury, loss
  • damage
  ,
  • damage(s)
  .
  • litter
  • Scatterings
  ,
  • dis array
  ,
  • dis arrays
  ,
  • dis order
  ,
  • dis orders
  ,
  • dis-array
  ,
  • dis-arrays
  ,
  • dis-order
  ,
  • dis-orders
  ,
  • piglet
  ,
  • piglets
  ,
  • un tidiness
  ,
  • un tidinesses
  ,
  • un-tidinesses
  .
  • litter, waste
  • debris
  .
  • mark, stain
  • spot
  .
  • mark; flaw
  • blot
  .
  • mess, debris
  • litter
  .
  • obscenity
  • Raunch
  ,
  • bawdry
  ,
  • pornography
  ,
  • ribaldry
  ,
  • scatology
  .
  • oddment
  • miscellaneous paraphernalia
  ,
  • miscellaneous paraphernalias
  ,
  • motleys
  ,
  • sundry item
  ,
  • sundry items
  ,
  • this and that
  ,
  • this and thats
  ,
  • this that
  ,
  • this thats
  .
  • odds and ends
  • sundries
  .
  • odds and ends; garbage
  • junk
  .
  • pollution
  • be smearing
  ,
  • be smirching
  ,
  • be-smearing
  ,
  • be-smirching
  ,
  • besmearings
  ,
  • besmirchings
  ,
  • de composition
  ,
  • de compositions
  ,
  • de-composition
  ,
  • de-compositions
  ,
  • foulings
  ,
  • greenhouse effect
  ,
  • greenhouse effects
  ,
  • pollutings
  ,
  • pollution
  ,
  • soilings
  ,
  • taintings
  ,
  • vitiation
  ,
  • vitiations
  .
  • pornography
  • adult material
  ,
  • adult materials
  ,
  • dirty movie
  ,
  • dirty movies
  ,
  • girlie magazine
  ,
  • girlie magazines
  ,
  • hard core pornographies
  ,
  • hard core pornography
  ,
  • hard-core pornographies
  ,
  • hard-core pornography
  ,
  • hardcore pornographies
  ,
  • hardcore pornography
  ,
  • obscene material
  ,
  • obscene materials
  ,
  • porn
  ,
  • porno
  ,
  • porno films
  ,
  • pornos
  ,
  • sexploitation
  ,
  • sexploitations
  ,
  • sexually explicit material
  ,
  • sexually explicit materials
  ,
  • soft core pornographies
  ,
  • soft-core pornographies
  ,
  • soft-core pornography
  ,
  • softcore pornographies
  ,
  • softcore pornography
  ,
  • stag films
  ,
  • x rated material
  ,
  • x rated materials
  ,
  • x rated movies
  ,
  • x-rated movies
  ,
  • xrated material
  ,
  • xrated materials
  ,
  • xrated movies
  .
  • raunch
  • blueness
  ,
  • bluenesses
  ,
  • dirty name
  ,
  • dirty names
  ,
  • four letter word
  ,
  • fourletter word
  ,
  • immodesties
  ,
  • immodesty
  ,
  • in delicacies
  ,
  • in delicacy
  ,
  • in-delicacies
  ,
  • in-delicacy
  ,
  • salacity
  ,
  • vileness
  ,
  • vilenesses
  ,
  • x rating
  ,
  • x ratings
  ,
  • x-ratings
  ,
  • xrating
  .
  • refuse
  • Rejectamenta
  ,
  • dunghill
  ,
  • dunghills
  ,
  • re fuse
  ,
  • re fuses
  ,
  • re-fuse
  ,
  • rejectamentas
  ,
  • waste matter
  ,
  • waste matters
  .
  • refuse, litter
  • garbage
  .
  • scum
  • lowests
  ,
  • scruff
  ,
  • scruffs
  ,
  • scum earth
  ,
  • scum of earth
  ,
  • scum the earth
  ,
  • un washed
  ,
  • un-washed
  ,
  • unwasheds
  .
  • shade of color
  • tint
  .
  • smudge
  • macule
  ,
  • macules
  ,
  • smudge
  ,
  • soiled spot
  ,
  • soiled spots
  .
  • smutch
  • spatterings
  .
  • soot
  • fuliginosities
  .
  • spot
  • little bit
  ,
  • little bits
  .
  • spot of dirt, blot, bar
  • stain
  .
  • stain
  • ink spot
  ,
  • ink spots
  ,
  • sinisters
  .
  • state of shame; bad reputation
  • disgrace
  .
  • stigma
  • brand
  .
  • superficial impurities, dirt
  • scum
  .
  • tincture
  • ex tract
  ,
  • ex-tract
  ,
  • ex-tracts
  ,
  • imbrue
  ,
  • imbrues
  .
  • tint
  • chroma
  ,
  • chromas
  ,
  • coloration
  ,
  • colorations
  ,
  • pigmentation
  ,
  • tinct
  ,
  • tincts
  .
  • tiny particles in the air
  • dust
  .
  • trash
  • ex cess
  ,
  • ex-cess
  ,
  • ex-cesses
  ,
  • scourings
  ,
  • shavings
  .
  • uncleanness
  • un cleanness
  ,
  • un cleannesses
  ,
  • un-cleannesses
  .
  • unwholesomeness
  • un wholesomenesses
  ,
  • un-wholesomeness
  ,
  • un-wholesomenesses
  .

Usage examples for Cleanliness

Famous quotes with Cleanliness

• People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

  David Brooks
• I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

  John Burns
• Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

  Kyan Douglas
• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  Frances Farmer
• I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

  Utada Hikaru

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