Antonyms for pollution
pəˈlu ʃənpol·lu·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. pollutionnoun

   Antonyms:
   purity, conservation

   Synonyms:
   soilage

2. pollutionnoun

   The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

   Nobody visits the river any more because of all the pollution.

   Antonyms:
   conservation, purity

   Synonyms:
   soilage

3. pollutionnoun

   Something that pollutes; a pollutant.

   Antonyms:
   conservation, purity

   Synonyms:
   soilage

4. pollutionnoun

   Physical defilement

   Antonyms:
   purity, conservation

   Synonyms:
   soilage

5. pollutionnoun

   The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.

   Antonyms:
   conservation, purity

   Synonyms:
   soilage

6. pollutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   self-pollution

Matched Categories

1. • Dirtiness
   • Environmental Condition
   • Impurity
   • Soiling

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. pollutionnoun

   undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

   Synonyms:
   defilement, contamination, befoulment

2. befoulment, defilement, pollutionnoun

   the state of being polluted

   Synonyms:
   defilement, contamination, befoulment

3. contamination, pollutionnoun

   the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors

   Synonyms:
   defilement, taint, contamination, contaminant, befoulment

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1. pollutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   defilement, contamination, corruption, infection debasement, vitiation

How to use pollution in a sentence?

1. Prem Singh:

   Every week a lung cancer patient walks in; earlier we would get one in three months, problems from air pollution are on the rise and leading to multiple diseases such as bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.

2. Fernanda Avelar Santos:

   We talk so much about the Anthropocene, and this is it, the pollution, the garbage in the sea and the plastic dumped incorrectly in the oceans is becoming geological material … preserved in the earth’s geological records.

3. Arvind Kumar:

   When I go home in the evening, I see huge crowds of people in markets, many of them are not wearing masks, they are not practicing social distancing, there is huge crowds inside the shops, around the shops, in the street, and pollution levels are still high, these two deadly cocktails are still operating and I fear that we may see even further spike in number of cases in the coming weeks.

4. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

   I wanted to collect direct observations, measurements of how pollution from human beings is changing the climate.

5. Krit Phromsakla:

   We have not been overwhelmed, we can still receive more patients but the number of people receiving treatment related to air pollution is higher, according to statistics we have collected from past 3 years, the number should gradually decrease when we approach the end of April… (but) we will continue to be vigilant monitoring the situation.

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