Contaminated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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