adulterate

1. 1.

   mixed with impurities

   Synonymsadulterateddebased

   Similarimpure

Other forms of adulterate

past tense

adulterated·

present participle

adulterating·

third person

adulterates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adulterate

What does adulterate mean?

adulterate means "corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adulterate?

adulterate has 4 syllables: a-dul-te-rate. The stress falls on "dul". In IPA it is /əˈdʌltɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for adulterate?

Close synonyms include load, stretch, dilute, debase, adulterated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adulterate a common word?

adulterate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adulterate?

95 words rhyme with adulterate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.