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impurities - 10 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, filth, grime, pestilence, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, foreign matter, poisoning, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | blemish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blister, bloom*, blot, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, imperfection, impurity, lump, mark, mole, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, zit*, beauty spot, blackhead, blot on the landscape, cicatrix, disfigurement, hickey, lentigo, macula, maculation, nevus, nodule, speckle, whitehead |
| Antonyms: | adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contamination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, disease, epidemic, filth, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, pollution, taint, dirtying, foulness, poisoning, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation |
| Antonyms: | cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baseness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, decadence, degradation, depravity, evil, impurity, infamy, iniquity, perversion, turpitude, vice, vulgarity, wickedness, degeneration, immorality, looseness, lubricity, profligacy, sinfulness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | filth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt, pollution |
| Synonyms: | carrion, contamination, corruption, defilement, dregs, dung, excrement, feces, garbage, grime, impurity, manure, mire, muck, mud, refuse, sediment, sewage, silt, slime, slop, sludge, slush, smut, trash, crud, feculence, filthiness, foul matter, foulness, nastiness, ordure, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, rottenness, sleaze, uncleanness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | indecency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, drunkenness, evil, impropriety, impurity, incivility, lewdness, offense, pornography, bawdiness, crudity, foulness, grossness, immodesty, indecorum, indelicacy, licentiousness, outrageousness, ribaldry, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, decency, modesty, purity, virtue, cleanness |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, blight, coarseness, curse, dirty word*, evil, four-letter word*, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, offense, outrage, pornography, profanity, smut*, vulgarity, wrong, X-rating, bawdiness, blueness, dirtiness, dirty name, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, indelicacy, licentiousness, lubricity, porn, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness |
| Antonyms: | decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness, cleanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulteration, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, impurity, infection, misuse, taint, besmearing, besmirching, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, concupiscence, debauchery, depravity, eroticism, evil, evilness, impurity, incontinence, lasciviousness, lechery, obscenity, pornography, smut, villainy, vulgarity, wickedness, boorishness, brutishness, carnality, corruptness, dirtiness, dissoluteness, erotism, fleshliness, grossness, incontinency, lecherousness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, pederasty, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, voluptuousness, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | decency, modesty, continency |
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