adulterated en · ADJ
Etymology
The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
A thin, crunchy lemon and thyme rosti was essentially the pimped-up aesthetic of the Kettle chip. That's OK. I like Kettle chips.
2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022:Heroin is often adulterated with fentanyl.
The problem of adulterated milk has periodically reemerged as a public health menace, from New York in the 1850s to China in 2008.
Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated; see also Thesaurus:contaminated
Deriveds
unadulterated · nonadulterated
Relateds
Synonyms
common · tainted · contaminated · corrupted · tainted · contaminated · adulterated · mixed · sophisticated · laced · polluted
Translations (2)
es adulterado (Translations) · de gepanscht (Translations)