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pollutant

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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
Related Words
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
Concept Thesaurus
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].

Antonyms:

cleanness
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