Pollution Synonyms and Antonyms

pə-lo͝oshən
The state of being contaminated
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. adulteration
  2. contamination
  3. befoulment
  4. sophistication
  5. defilement
Antonyms:
  1. purification
  2. purity
  3. cleanliness

Words Related to Pollution

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. clean
  2. air-pollution
  3. polution
  4. noise-pollution
  5. pollutant
  6. flooding
  7. eutrophication
  8. emission
  9. acidification
  10. health-threatening
  11. traffic-related
  12. over-abstraction
  13. deforestation

Pollution Sentence Examples

  • Heathenish cults and forbidden manners and customs are a pollution to the land and a deep insult to the true God.

  • Air pollution comes from many different sources.

  • They may also take proceedings in respect of the pollution of a stream by any solid or liquid sewage matter.

  • That element will comprise less than 1% of total litter and pollution.

  • Appointed a member of the second royal commission on the pollution of rivers in 1868, he was provided by the government with a completely-equipped laboratory, in which, for a period of six years, he carried on the inquiries necessary for the purposes of that body, and was thus the means of bringing to light an enormous amount of valuable information respecting the contamination of rivers by sewage, trade-refuse, &c., and the purification of water for domestic use.

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