"septic" | Definition and Related Words

Adjective

Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms (synset 302121107)
"a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage"
also:
- unhealthful - detrimental to good health
- germy - full of germs or pathological microorganisms
similar to:
- abscessed - infected and filled with pus
- dirty, pestiferous - contaminated with infecting organisms
- contaminative - making impure by contact or mixing
- purulent, pussy - containing pus
- infectious, infective - caused by infection or capable of causing infection
- putrefacient, putrefactive - causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction
- septicemic - characteristic of septicemia
same as: infected
Of or relating to or caused by putrefaction (synset 303010177)
"the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank"