polluted

1. 1.

   rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution

   “had to boil the contaminated water”

   “polluted lakes and streams”

   Synonymscontaminated

   Similarimpure

Questions about polluted

What does polluted mean?

polluted means "rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution".

How many syllables are in polluted?

polluted has 3 syllables: pol-lu-ted. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /pəˈlutɪd/.

What is another word for polluted?

Close synonyms include contaminated. 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 polluted a common word?

polluted is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 polluted?

1 word rhymes with polluted. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.