SEPTIC
Dictionary entry overview: What does septic mean?
• SEPTIC (adjective)
The adjective SEPTIC has 2 senses:
1. containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
2. of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
Familiarity information: SEPTIC used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SEPTIC (adjective)
Meaning:
Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Synonyms:
infected; septic
Context examples:
a septic sore throat / a septic environment / septic sewage
Similar:
abscessed (infected and filled with pus)
contaminated; dirty; pestiferous (contaminated with infecting organisms)
contaminative (making impure by contact or mixing)
purulent; pussy (having undergone infection)
infectious; infective (caused by infection or capable of causing infection)
putrefacient; putrefactive (causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction)
septicemic (characteristic of septicemia)
Also:
unhealthful (detrimental to good health)
germy (full of germs or pathological microorganisms)
Antonym:
antiseptic (thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms)
Meaning:
Of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank
Pertainym:
decomposition ((biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action)
