contaminated \contaminated\ adj.
1. containing undesired or infective microorganisms.
Syn: dirty, infected.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. rendered impure by addition of deleterious substances; as,
had to boil the contaminated water.
Syn: polluted.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. 1 (Computers) damaged by inclusion of incorrect data or
information not belonging; as, The file was contaminated
by a buggy editor.
Syn: corrupted.
[PJC]
4. appearing unethical due to a questionable source or
motives; -- of money or activities; as, The fund was
contaminated by a large donation from a mobster.
Syn: tainted.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Contaminate \Con*tam"i*nate\ (k[o^]n*t[a^]m"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Contaminated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Contaminating.] [L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to
bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion,
for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See
Contact.]
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully;
to taint; to pollute; to defile.
[1913 Webster]
Shall we now
Contaminate our figures with base bribes? --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor
virtue contaminated. --Goldsmith.
Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain;
corrupt.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
contaminated
adj 1: corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"
[ant: uncontaminated]
2: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds";
"obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: dirty,
infected, pestiferous]
3: rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to
boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
[syn: polluted]
WordNet (r) 2.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "contaminated":
abandoned, activated, autoluminescent, bad, bad for, cankered,
charged, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent,
degenerate, degraded, depraved, diseased, dissolute, foul,
gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, hot, impure, infected, injurious,
insalubrious, insanitary, irradiated, morally polluted, morbid,
morbific, mortified, noisome, nonkosher, noxious, pathogenic,
pathological, peccant, perverted, pestiferous, poisoned, polluted,
profligate, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive,
radioluminescent, reprobate, ritually unclean, rotten, septic,
sphacelated, steeped in iniquity, tainted, tref, ulcerated,
ulcerous, unbathed, unclean, uncleanly, unhealthful, unhealthy,
unhygienic, unpure, unsanitary, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept,
unwashed, unwholesome, unwiped, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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