English Explanatory Dictionary

adulterated

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of adulterate

Word forms

adulterated

Etymology

The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.

Synonyms

laced tainted contaminated adulterated common corrupted mixed polluted sophisticated

Related words

adulterant

Derived words

nonadulterated unadulterated
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