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Polluted vs Dirt - What's the difference?

polluted | dirt |

As an adjective polluted

is defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

As a verb polluted

is simple past and past participle of pollute.

As a noun dirt is

animal.

polluted

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

    • Derived terms

    * pollutedly * pollutedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • Simple past and past participle of pollute.

    • References

    *

    dirt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
    • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
    • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

    • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty