unpolluted

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adjective

Not polluted; uncontaminated.

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uncontaminatedpure
OriginEnglish polluted ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

unpolluted1

adjectiveunpolluted (comparative more unpolluted, superlative most unpolluted)

comparative more unpolluted · superlative most unpolluted

  1. Not polluted; uncontaminated.

    "Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."

    1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin, volume VI, number 4

unpolluted2

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unpollute

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivefree from admixture with noxious elements; clean

Similar
uncontaminatedpure
Also see
immaculatepureuncontaminated

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishpolluted
  9. Englishunpolluted

From un- + polluted.

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Translations

German unverschmutzt
  • unverschmutztuncontaminated
Italian incontaminato
  • incontaminatouncontaminated
Latin impollutus, incoinquinātus
  • impollutusuncontaminated
  • incoinquinātusuncontaminated
Cite this entry
APA

unpolluted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpolluted

MLA

“unpolluted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpolluted. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpolluted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpolluted.

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