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Sullied vs Unpristine - What's the difference?

sullied | unpristine |

As adjectives the difference between sullied and unpristine

is that sullied is defiled or tainted, soiled or stained while unpristine is not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.

As a verb sullied

is (sully).

sullied

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.

    • Antonyms

    * unsullied

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sully)

    • unpristine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 7, author=Andy Newman, title=Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The subject of all this breathlessness is a decidedly unpristine swath of Staten Island known as Arlington Marsh, a boggy green break in one of the city's most industrialized stretches of waterfront. }}