What does adulterating mean?

adulterating means "making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials".

How many syllables are in adulterating?

adulterating has 5 syllables: a-dul-te-ra-ting. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for adulterating?

Close synonyms include adulterant. 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.

What is the opposite of adulterating?

The recorded antonyms are purifying.

Is adulterating a common word?

adulterating 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.

adulterating — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
“the adulterating effect of extraneous materials”
Synonymsadulterant
Antonymspurifying
Similarextraneous

Questions about adulterating

What does adulterating mean?: adulterating means "making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials".
How many syllables are in adulterating?: adulterating has 5 syllables: a-dul-te-ra-ting. The stress falls on "te".
What is another word for adulterating?: Close synonyms include adulterant. 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.
What is the opposite of adulterating?: The recorded antonyms are purifying.
Is adulterating a common word?: adulterating 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adulterating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
“the adulterating effect of extraneous materials”
Synonymsadulterant
Antonymspurifying
Similarextraneous

Questions about adulterating

What does adulterating mean?: adulterating means "making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials".
How many syllables are in adulterating?: adulterating has 5 syllables: a-dul-te-ra-ting. The stress falls on "te".
What is another word for adulterating?: Close synonyms include adulterant. 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.
What is the opposite of adulterating?: The recorded antonyms are purifying.
Is adulterating a common word?: adulterating 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adulterating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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