Contaminated
Contaminated adjective - Containing foreign or lower-grade substances.
Worthless and contaminated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Worthless" instead an adjective "Contaminated".
Worthless
Worthless adjective - Having no usefulness.
Contaminated and worthless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contaminated" instead an adjective "Worthless".
Both words in one sentence
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Hunter is sorely disappointed that the silver turns out to be impure, contaminated with the then-worthless metal platinum.
Source: Literature / Pirate Latitudes -
In the prequel comic Tales of the Questor Quentyn's species, the Rac Cona Daimh, considered bauxite a worthless ore as no furnace could extract metal from it, and in fact a toxin as an entire village became uninhabitable when the water supply became contaminated with it.
Source: Worthless Yellow Rocks
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