| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
Synonyms: |
abuse, adulteration, besmearing, besmirching, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, impurity, infection, misuse, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, taint, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical hurting, injuring |
Synonyms: |
crime, damage, defilement, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, malevolence, maltreatment, manhandling, misdeed, offense, pollution, violation, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
Antonyms: |
aid, help, preservation, respect |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe |
Antonyms: |
blessing, boon, health, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | contagion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infection |
Synonyms: |
bane, contamination, corruption, illness, miasma, pestilence, plague, poison, pollution, taint, transmission, venom, virus |
| Main Entry: | contamination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
Synonyms: |
contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, dirtying, disease, epidemic, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, poisoning, pollution, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation, taint |
Antonyms: |
cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
Synonyms: |
debasement, decay, defilement, distortion, doctoring, falsification, foulness, infection, noxiousness, pollution, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, rottenness |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, cleanness, pureness, purification, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, loss |
Synonyms: |
accident, adulteration, adversity, affliction, bane, blemish, blow, breakage, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, cave-in, contamination, corruption, debasement, depreciation, deprivation, destruction, deterioration, detriment, devastation, disservice, disturbance, evil, hardship, harm, hurt, illness, impairment, infliction, knockout, marring, mischief, mishap, mutilation, outrage, pollution, ravage, reverse, ruin, ruining, spoilage, stroke, suffering, waste, wound, wreckage, wrecking, wrong |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, favor, improvement, profit |
| Main Entry: | disgrace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of shame; bad reputation |
Synonyms: |
abasement, abuse, baseness, black eye, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, culpability, debasement, debasing, defamation, degradation, derision, disbarment, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humbling, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, ingloriousness, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, prostitution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality |
Antonyms: |
esteem, exaltation, honor, respect |
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, filth, foreign matter, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | infection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contamination |
Synonyms: |
bug*, communicability, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, defilement, disease, epidemic, flu, germs, impurity, insanitation, poison, pollution, septicity, virus, what's going around |
Antonyms: |
sanitation, sterility |