'Polluted' definitions:
Definition of 'polluted'
From: WordNet
adjective
Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams" [syn: contaminated, polluted]
Definition of 'Polluted'
From: GCIDE
- Polluted \Pol*lut"ed\, a. Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- {Pol*lut"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Pol*lut"ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Polluted'
From: GCIDE
- Pollute \Pol*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polluted; p. pr. & vb. n. Polluting.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a prep. appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See Position, Lave.]
- 1. To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. [1913 Webster]
- The land was polluted with blood. --Ps. cvi. 38 [1913 Webster]
- Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. --2 Esd. xv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Jewish Law) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. [1913 Webster]
- Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. --Num. xviii. 32. [1913 Webster]
- They have polluted themselves with blood. --Lam. iv. 14. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'polluted'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- afflicted,
- bad,
- bad for,
- bent,
- boiled,
- bombed,
- boozy,
- canned,
- cockeyed,
- cockeyed drunk,
- common,
- contaminated,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crocked,
- crocko,
- debased,
- debauched,
- decadent,
- defiled,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- disguised,
- dissolute,
- drunk,
- elevated,
- foul,
- fried,
- fuddled,
- half-seas over,
- harmful,
- high,
- illuminated,
- impure,
- inebriated,
- infected,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- lit,
- lit up,
- loaded,
- lubricated,
- lushy,
- morally polluted,
- morbific,
- muddled,
- muzzy,
- noisome,
- nonkosher,
- noxious,
- oiled,
- organized,
- pathogenic,
- peccant,
- perverted,
- pestiferous,
- pickled,
- pie-eyed,
- pissed,
- pissy-eyed,
- pixilated,
- plastered,
- potted,
- profligate,
- raddled,
- reprobate,
- ritually unclean,
- rotten,
- septic,
- shellacked,
- skunk-drunk,
- smashed,
- soaked,
- soused,
- squiffy,
- steeped in iniquity,
- stewed,
- stinko,
- swacked,
- tainted,
- tanked,
- tight,
- tref,
- unbathed,
- unclean,
- uncleanly,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unpure,
- unsanitary,
- unscoured,
- unscrubbed,
- unswept,
- unwashed,
- unwholesome,
- unwiped,
- vice-corrupted,
- vitiated,
- warped