different between adulterate vs unadulterate

English

Etymology

From Latin adulter?tus (“(adjective) adulterated; of mixed descent; (verb) adulterated, corrupted, defiled, polluted; committed adultery with; (figuratively) counterfeited, falsified”) + English -ate (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the specified thing’, and verbs with the sense ‘acting in the specified manner’). Adulter?tus is the perfect passive participle of adulter? (“to adulterate, corrupt, defile, pollute; to commit adultery with; (figuratively) to counterfeit, falsify”) + -?tus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a thing or a quality, from nouns); adulter? is derived from ad- (prefix intensifying the action of verbs) + alter? (“to alter, change”) (from alter (“the other”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?el- (“beyond; other”) + *-teros (suffix forming contrastive or oppositional adjectives)) + -? (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• Adjective:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?lt???t/
• • (General American) IPA^(key): /??d?lt?r?t/, [-?d?l-]
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?lt??e?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??d?lt???e?t/, [-?d?l-]
• Hyphenation: adul?ter?ate

Adjective

adulterate (comparative more adulterate, superlative most adulterate) (archaic, literary)

1. Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated. [common in the 16th and 17th c.]
2. Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous. [common in the 16th and 17th c.]

Derived terms

• adulterateness

Translations

Verb

adulterate (third-person singular simple present adulterates, present participle adulterating, simple past and past participle adulterated)

1. (transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
2. (transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) adulter, debase
3. (transitive, archaic) To commit adultery with (someone).

   Synonym: (obsolete) adulter

4. (transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.
5. (intransitive, also figuratively, archaic) To commit adultery.

Conjugation

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References

Further reading

• adulterant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “adulterate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Italian

Verb

adulterate

1. second-person plural present indicative of adulterare
2. second-person plural imperative of adulterare
3. feminine plural of adulterato

Latin

Verb

adulter?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of adulter?

English

Etymology

un- +? adulterate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??d?lt???t/

Adjective

unadulterate (comparative more unadulterate, superlative most unadulterate)

1. (archaic) Not adulterated; pure.

   • unadulterate air

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     because he
     Attended public meetings, and would always
     Stand prating there of commerce, public faith,
     Economy, and unadulterate coin,
     And other topics, ultra-radical

Related terms

• unadulterately