adulterine
/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/US/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
adulterine adjective: spurious; due to adulteration.
Adjective
adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)
- Spurious; due to adulteration.
- a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- Born of adultery.
- Pertaining to adultery.
- Illegal; unlicensed.
- when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised[…]1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Noun
adulterine (plural adulterines)
- One born of an adulterous union.
adulterine meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
adulterine in Tamil
- தகாவழிப்பிறந்த மகவு, தகாவழிப்பிறந்த முறைகேடாகப் பிறந்த, போலியான, சட்டத்திற்கு மாறான
adulterine in Urdu
- غیر قانُونی, بِلا اِجازت, مِلاوٹی, حرامی, حَرام کا جَنا, ناجائز
adulterine in Bengali
- অবৈধ, জারজ, নকল
Forms of adulterine
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more adulterine |
| superlative | most adulterine |
| Noun | |
| plural | adulterines |
Origin of adulterine
From Latin adulterīnus.
Questions about adulterine
- What does adulterine mean?
- Adulterine means spurious; due to adulteration.
- What is adulterine in Tamil?
- Adulterine in Tamil is தகாவழிப்பிறந்த மகவு, தகாவழிப்பிறந்த முறைகேடாகப் பிறந்த, போலியான. See Adulterine meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is adulterine?
- Adulterine can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce adulterine?
- Adulterine is pronounced /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ (UK).
Words near adulterine in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: adulterine (page history and authors); adulterine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adulterine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adulterine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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