Adulterated
adj, verb
adj, verb ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of adulterate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 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). not-comparable
"Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated"
Adjective
- 1 mixed with impurities wordnet
Example
More examples"Wine, olive oil, and honey are frequently adulterated, faked, or counterfeited."
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.