polluted

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polluted

adjective more polluted · most polluted

  1. Made unclean or impure.

    Similar: adulterated, foul, tainted, common, contaminated, corrupted, mixed, polluted, sophisticated · Opposite: uncontaminated, unpolluted

  2. Ireland Drunk. "[He was] Absolutely polluted. He was SO drunk that he had to be helped into the cab!" "White, you are crazy! Jack Fielding was never drunk in his life!"

    Similar: inebriated, lamped, ossified, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled

verb

  1. past simple past of pollute

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: contaminated, impure, defiled, dirty, tainted, unclean, filthy, pollutant, contamination, contaminate, sordid, plagued, clean, uncontaminated, oiled, api

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adj defiled

Españolpoluto, polucionado
Portuguêspoluído
Françaisimpur

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@misc{polluted_2026,
  title = {polluted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/polluted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}