| Main Entry: | pollutant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
Synonyms: |
hazardous waste, poison, pollution, toxic waste, toxin |
| 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: | adulterant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, adulterator, contamination, contaminator, defilement, impurity, pollutant |
| Main Entry: | adulterator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
Synonyms: |
adulterant, adulteration, contamination, contaminator, defilement, impurity, pollutant |
| Main Entry: | contaminant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminator |
Synonyms: |
adulterant, contamination, foreign matter, impurity, poison, pollutant, toxin |
| Main Entry: | contaminator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
Synonyms: |
adulterant, contamination, foreign matter, impurity, poison, pollutant, toxin |
| Main Entry: | uncleanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impurity |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foreign matter, foulness, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, unwholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | unwholesomeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impurity |
Synonyms: |
adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foreign matter, foulness, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness |
| Main Entry: | impurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
light, loose, adulterous, anacreontic, bawdy, bestial, broad, carnal, carnal, concupiscent, cyprian, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, equivocal, erotic, fornicatory, frail, free, fulsome, gallant, gay, gross, immodest, impure, incestuous, incontinent, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, licentious, lickerish, lididinous, lupanarian, lustful, meretricious, nerotic, no better than she should be, not to be mentioned to ears polite, obscene, of easy virtue, of loose character, on the loose, on the streets, on the town, paphian, pornerastic, pornographic, profligate, prurient, rakish, rampant, randy, ribald, riggish, ruttish, salacious, scortatory, sensual, sexotropic, shameless, smutty, subagitatory, supinovalent, unchaste, unclean, voluptuous, wanton
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| Concept: | Uncleanness. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
uncleanness; impurity; immundity, immundicity; impurity [of mind] [more]., defilement, contamination; defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo., slovenry; slovenliness, squalor., dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dustman, sweep; beast., dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle., sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders; recrement, slag; scum, froth., hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar., riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch., mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U. S.]., spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; exereta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost., dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole., sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.
-verbs
be unclean, become unclean; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad., render unclean; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease; dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear, bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt (injure); cover with dust; drabble in the mud; roil., wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
-adjectives
unclean, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.]., uncleanly, slovenly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; grody to the max; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly., nasty, coarse, foul, impure, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid., moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese., crapulous (intemperate); gross (impure in mind); fimetarious, fimicolous.
-phrases
"they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].
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Antonyms: |
cleanness |
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