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

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

This was a mouse study using a purified research-grade form of phytic acid, not the kind on your dinner plate. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 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

The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026

Verb

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

This is a far more advanced and valuable product that requires graphite to be purified, shaped, coated, and graphitized before it can be used inside batteries. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 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