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Polluted vs Unwholesome - What's the difference?

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Polluted is a related term of unwholesome.


As adjectives the difference between polluted and unwholesome

is that polluted is defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched while unwholesome is not wholesome; unfavorable to health; insalubrious; unhealthy; as, unwholesome air; unwholesome food.

As a verb polluted

is simple past and past participle of pollute.

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

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    unwholesome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; insalubrious; unhealthy; as, unwholesome air; unwholesome food.
  • Not sound; diseased; tainted; impaired; defective.
  • Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.

    • Related terms

    * wholesome * unwholesomely * unwholesomeness

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