contaminative

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   making impure by contact or mixing

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Questions about contaminative

What does contaminative mean?

contaminative means "making impure by contact or mixing".

How many syllables are in contaminative?

contaminative has 5 syllables: con-ta-mi-na-tive. The stress falls on "mi".

Is contaminative a common word?

contaminative 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.