Synonyms of purified

purified 1 of 2

adjective

as in pure

free from added matter

purified water that was now safe to drink

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pure
• refined
• fresh
• undiluted
• filtered
• plain
• unmixed
• unadulterated
• clean
• tried
• unalloyed
• absolute
• neat
• straight
• concentrated
• fine
• uncontaminated
• rendered
• untainted
• unpolluted
• uncorrupted
• undefiled
• clarified
• taintless
• uncombined
• strong
• full-bodied

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• mixed
• contaminated
• adulterated
• impure
• diluted
• polluted
• tainted
• alloyed
• spoiled
• corrupted
• debased
• soiled
• incorporated
• combined
• blended
• compounded
• defiled
• merged
• unclarified
• joined
• mingled
• commingled
• fused
• amalgamated
• sullied
• fouled
• intermixed
• intermingled
• linked
• befouled
• besmirched
• conjoined
• united
• coalesced
• doctored
• cheapened
• watered-down

purified

2 of 2

verb

past tense of purify

1

as in purged

to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially

Catholics go to confession to be purified

Synonyms & Similar Words

• purged
• cleansed
• sanctified
• healed
• restored
• refined
• improved
• amended
• regenerated
• elevated
• acquitted
• uplifted
• vindicated
• ennobled
• cleared
• absolved
• exonerated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stained
• degraded
• defiled
• corrupted
• debased
• perverted
• poisoned
• warped
• depraved
• demeaned
• debauched
• tarnished
• profaned
• prostituted
• sullied

2

as in filtered

to remove usually visible impurities from

purify the water by distillation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filtered
• refined
• clarified
• extracted
• cleaned
• washed
• distilled
• processed
• fined
• purged
• cleared
• cleansed
• garbled
• sifted
• rectified
• leached
• decontaminated
• disinfected
• elutriated
• screened
• bolted
• sieved
• sanitized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• contaminated
• clouded
• dulled
• muddied
• soiled
• tainted
• polluted
• defiled
• dirtied
• sullied
• fouled
• besmirched
• begrimed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of purified

Adjective

Rather than requiring highly purified feedstock to make a specialized semiconductor material, manufacturers could potentially start with more abundant and less refined iron ore. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

It is derived from purified DNA fragments extracted most commonly from salmon, and sometimes from certain trout. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026

Maher helped create the opinionated political host, but by now has lived long enough to resent the purified partisan marketplace that followed. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026

Similarly, SpudCell was assembled from the bottom up with purified, nonliving parts. — Tara Deans, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

The work was done in mice using a purified form of phytic acid. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026

Cetaphil’s face serum uses purified peptides to improve your skin’s elasticity and reduce the appearance of lines. — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 22 June 2026

The report finds that purified terephthalic acid production and monoethylene glycol, used to polymerize polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, are the biggest contributors across nearly all environmental impact categories. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 June 2026

Verb

This gas will then be purified and concentrated, ready for export to local gas networks as what is termed renewable natural gas (RNG). — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026

And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells. — ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

But that doesn’t matter because that’s been purified. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 June 2026

She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed. — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026

There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool. — New York Times, 31 May 2026

Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026

When the characters played by Carey Mulligan and Kaden Leos begin to tiptoe into that void, Gosling sells the Driver’s transition into a man finally come alive, revitalized by love and purified by violence. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026