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CONTAMINATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contaminative mean?
• CONTAMINATIVE (adjective)
The adjective CONTAMINATIVE has 1 sense:
1. making impure by contact or mixing
Familiarity information: CONTAMINATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making impure by contact or mixing
Similar:
infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)
Derivation:
contaminate (make impure)
contaminate (make radioactive by adding radioactive material)
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