taint

1. 1.

   the state of being contaminated

   Synonymscontamination

   Broaderimpurity

   Narrowerdust contamination

Other forms of taint

plural

taints·

past tense

tainted·

present participle

tainting·

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 taint

What does taint mean?

taint means "place under suspicion or cast doubt upon". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taint?

taint has 1 syllable: taint. In IPA it is /ˈteɪnt/.

What is another word for taint?

Close synonyms include defile, sully, corrupt, cloud, infect. 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 taint a common word?

taint 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.