adulteration
nounHow many syllables in adulteration?
There are 5 syllables in the word adulteration.How to pronounce adulteration:
Definition of adulteration:
- adulteration (noun):
- the process of rotting or decaying
- the process of adulterating the condition of being adulterated
- the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another).
Synonyms for adulteration:
contaminant
contamination
corruption
debasement
defilement
impurity
pollution
thinning
uncleanness
vitiation
watering down
weakening
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- sadistically
- hysterically
- identically
- recapacitate
- conventional
- unwarrantable
- abominable
- matriculation
- cosmopolitan
- intellectual
- overcompensate
- hilariously
- choreography
- significantly
- nostalgically
- multisyllable
- uninterrupted
- accompaniment
- aficionada
- unregrettable
- exhilaration
- unexplainable
- patronizingly
- generically
- technicality
- lackadaisical
- unconditional
- mysteriousness
- magnificently
- interdependent
- expediently
- deliciously
- industrialist
- exaggeration
- craniologist
- perfectionist
- calumniator
- articulacy
- rememberable
- longitudinal
- rectifiable
- victoriously
- sentimentally
- Deuteronomy
- irresponsible
- semiconscious
- justifiably
- pectoriloquy
- ambitiously
- single-handedly
- … more
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