wastewater
wastewater noun: any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.
Noun
wastewater (countable and uncountable, plural wastewaters)
- Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.
- Near-synonyms: sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water (informal)
- The commission's recommendations would require the removal of toxins and heavy metals from wastewaters that now run into regional rivers and New York Harbor untreated, and collect at their bottom.1976 September 10, Ronald Sullivan, “PROGRAM SHAPES UP ON HARBOR SLUDGE”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water
wastewater meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
wastewater in Hindi
- अपशिष्ट जल
wastewater in Marathi
- सांडपाणी
wastewater in Urdu
- گندہ پانی, غلیظ پانی
wastewater in Bengali
- বর্জ্য জল
More languagesFewer languages
- wastewater in Malayalam
- മലിനജലം malinajalaṁ
- wastewater in Gujarati
- ગંદાપાણી gandāpāṇī
- wastewater in Odia
- ବର୍ଜ୍ଯ଼ ଜଳ, ବର୍ଜ୍ଯ଼ଜଳ
- wastewater in Persian
- فاضلاب fâzelâb, پساب pasâb
Examples of wastewater in a sentence
- As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings.2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:
- From the wastewaters of the internet, cryptic comments float up from an anonymous figure known only as Q.2023 February 20, Dwight Garner, “QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory”, in The New York Times:
Synonyms of wastewater
Forms of wastewater
| plural | wastewaters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | waste water |
| alternative form | waste-water |
Origin of wastewater
From waste + water.
Questions about wastewater
- What does wastewater mean?
- Wastewater means any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.
- What is wastewater in Hindi?
- Wastewater in Hindi is अपशिष्ट जल. See Wastewater meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use wastewater in a sentence?
- As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings.
- What part of speech is wastewater?
- Wastewater is a noun.
- What is the plural of wastewater?
- The plural of wastewater is wastewaters.
Words near wastewater in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wastewater (page history and authors); wastewater (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wastewater (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wastewater (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wastewater (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ગંદાપાણી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); wastewater (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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