Antonyms of verb contaminate

1 of 2 senses of contaminate

Sense 2
contaminate -- (make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated")
       Antonym of decontaminate (Sense 1)
      => decontaminate -- (rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb contaminate

2 senses of contaminate

Sense 1
pollute, foul, contaminate -- (make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake")
       => dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire -- (make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!")

Sense 2
contaminate -- (make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Antonyms of adj contaminating

2 senses of contaminating

Sense 1
dirty (vs. clean), contaminating -- (spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout")


Sense 2
corrupting, contaminating -- (that infects or taints)

INDIRECT (VIA infectious) -> noninfectious -- (not infectious)

Similarity of adj contaminating

2 senses of contaminating

Sense 1
dirty (vs. clean), contaminating -- (spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout")

Sense 2
corrupting, contaminating -- (that infects or taints)
       => infectious (vs. noninfectious) -- (easily spread; "fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell)