Contaminated vs Unfavorable - What's the difference?

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Contaminated is a related term of unfavorable.

As adjectives the difference between contaminated and unfavorable

is that contaminated is adulterated; impure while unfavorable is disadvantageous, adverse, unsuitable, inconducive; serving to hinder or oppose.

As a verb contaminated

is (contaminate).

contaminated

English

Verb

(head)

(contaminate)

Adjective

(en adjective)

adulterated; impure

Usage notes

* Nouns to which "contaminated" is often applied: food, meat, fish, milk, water, groundwater, land, soil, sediment, site, property, air, product, material.

unfavorable

English

Alternative forms

* unfavourable

Adjective

(en adjective)

Disadvantageous, adverse, unsuitable, inconducive; serving to hinder or oppose.

* 1863 , , Excursions , ch. 6:

The shade of a dense pine wood, is more unfavorable to the springing up of pines of the same species than of oaks within it.

Not favorable, disapproving.

* 1860 , , The Mill on the Floss , ch. 11:

[Y]et the thing she most dreaded was to offend the gypsies, by betraying her extremely unfavorable opinion of them.

(of wind or weather) Causing obstacles or delay; not conducive to travel or work; inclement.

* 1855 , , Israel Potter , ch. 17:

The wind was right under the land, the tide unfavorable.

Not auspicious; ill-boding.

* 1903 , , The Filigree Ball , ch. 6:

The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen.

Usage notes

* Nouns to which "unfavorable" is often applied: condition, circumstance, weather, climate, outcome, result, opinion, view, impression, effect, consequence, impact, influence, environment, balance, information, report, prognosis, rating, evaluation, review, position, factor, feature, aspect, reaction, response, attitude, season, development, treatment, ruling, case, state, experience, inference.

Antonyms

* favorable