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Definition 2025

pollutant

pollutant

English

Noun

pollutant ‎(plural pollutants)

A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.

Translations

something that pollutes

Catalan: contaminant m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 污染物 (zh) ‎(wūrǎnwù)
Dutch: vervuiler m
Finnish: saaste (fi), epäpuhtaus
French: polluant (fr) m
German: Schadstoff (de) m, umweltgefährlicher Stoff m
Indonesian: polutan (id)

Interlingua: polluente
Italian: sostanza inquinante f, inquinante (it) m
Japanese: 汚染物質 ‎(おせんぶっしつ, osen-busshitsu)
Korean: 오염물질 ‎(oyum-muljil)
Maori: parawhakakino, parawhakaparu
Portuguese: poluente m
Russian: загрязни́тель (ru) m ‎(zagrjaznítelʹ), загрязня́ющее вещество́ n ‎(zagrjaznjájuščeje veščestvó)
Spanish: contaminante m