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UNPOLLUTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unpolluted mean?
• UNPOLLUTED (adjective)
The adjective UNPOLLUTED has 1 sense:
1. free from admixture with noxious elements; clean
Familiarity information: UNPOLLUTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from admixture with noxious elements; clean
Synonyms:
uncontaminated; unpolluted
Context example:
a contaminated lake
Similar:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
Context examples
In relatively unpolluted urban neighbourhoods trees did not have the same impact.
(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The planet orbits very close to the star and is far less massive than Jupiter - 318 times Earth's mass - but has managed to accrete the primordial hydrogen/helium atmosphere that is largely 'unpolluted' by heavier elements, said Björn Benneke of the University of Montreal in Canada.
(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)
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