Contaminated
Contaminated adjective - Containing foreign or lower-grade substances.
Uncommon and contaminated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Uncommon" instead an adjective "Contaminated".
Uncommon
Uncommon adjective - Being out of the ordinary.
Contaminated and uncommon are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contaminated" instead an adjective "Uncommon".
Nearby Word: uncommonly
Both words in one sentence
- It's also not uncommon for precocious puberty to be a temporary thing, environmentally or otherwise, such as in an Italian school in the 1970s where boys and girls started growing breasts — believed to be from exposure to contaminated beef or poultry.
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Uncommon and Contaminated. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contaminated/uncommon
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