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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
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septic

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Adjective, Noun
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sep=tic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective septic has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

septica. [Septi- + -ic.].
     Of the seventh degree or order.  [1913 Webster]
septica. [L. septicus, Gr. , fr. to make putrid: cf. F. septique.].
     Having power to promote putrefaction.  [1913 Webster]
septicn. 
     A substance that promotes putrefaction.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

septic, adj. contaminated with bacteria from a festering wound etc., putrefying.

Idiom
septic tank a tank in which the organic matter in sewage is disintegrated through bacterial activity.
Derivative
septically adv. septicity n.
Etymology
L septicus f. Gk septikos f. sepo make rotten

THESAURUS

septic

bad, bad for, cankered, contaminated, diseased, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, infected, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, morbid, morbific, mortified, noisome, noxious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, putrefacient, putrefactive, rotting, saprobic, saprogenic, saprogenous, saprophilous, saprophytic, sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome

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Insalubrity

N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.

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