All septic synonyms
sep·tic
S s adjective septic
- infected — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- disinfected — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- insanitary — unsanitary.
- festered — to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- chafed — to wear or abrade by rubbing: He chafed his shoes on the rocks.
- abscessed — a localized collection of pus in the tissues of the body, often accompanied by swelling and inflammation and frequently caused by bacteria.
- decontaminated — Simple past tense and past participle of decontaminate.
adj septic
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- miasmatic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- germfree — free of germs; sterile: This kind of research should be done in a germfree laboratory.
- infective — infectious.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- infecund — not fecund; unfruitful; barren.
- inflamed — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).