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septic
| septic sore throat
| septic tank
| septicæmia
| septicaemia
| septical
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective septic has 2 senses
- septic(a = adj.all) infected - containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" Antonym: antiseptic
- septic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to or caused by putrefaction; "the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank" Derived form noun sepsis1
Derived form noun sepsis1
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septic, a. [Septi- + -ic.].
Of the seventh degree or order. [1913 Webster]
septic, a. [L. septicus, Gr. , fr. to make putrid: cf. F. septique.].
Having power to promote putrefaction. [1913 Webster]
septic, n.
A substance that promotes putrefaction. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
septic, adj. contaminated with bacteria from a festering wound etc., putrefying.
Idiom
septic tank a tank in which the organic matter in sewage is disintegrated through bacterial activity.
Derivative
septically adv. septicity n.
Etymology
L septicus f. Gk septikos f. sepo make rotten
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septic
bad, bad for, cankered, contaminated, diseased, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, infected, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, morbific, mortified, noisome, noxious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, putrefacient, putrefactive, rotting, saprobic, saprogenic, saprogenous, saprophilous, saprophytic, sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesomeROGET THESAURUS
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Insalubrity
N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.
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