Purulent [adjective]

Definition of Purulent:

decayed, decaying

Synonyms of Purulent:

● Putrid

● Rotting

● Disgusting

● Rancid

● Noxious

● Sour

● Spoiled

● Corrupt

● Moldy

● Stale

● Bad

● Crumbling

● Fetid

● Foul

● Gross

● Loathsome

● Loud

● Mephitic

● Noisome

● Offensive

● Rank

● Stinking

● Strong

● Tainted

● Touched

● Unsound

● Overripe

● Bad-smelling

● Corroded

● Crumbled

● Decomposed

● Decomposing

● Disintegrated

● Disintegrating

● Fecal

● Feculent

● Festering

● Infected

● Perished

● Polluted

● Pustular

● Putrescent

● Putrified

● Smelling


Opposite/Antonyms of Purulent:

● Superior

● Nice

● Uncorrupt

● Decent

● Undecayed

● New

● Pure

● Good

● Sweet

● Fresh

● Kind

● Trustworthy

● Moral

● Honest

● Wholesome

● Helpful

● Pleasant

● Perfumed


Sentence/Example of Purulent:

Above all, the doctor—the doctor and the purulent trash and garbage of his pharmacopoeia!

Phlebitis, or inflammation of a vein, may be plastic or purulent in nature.

In purulent and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers on the cornea, &c.

The existence of a purulent discharge is no excuse for lack of cleanliness.

Purulent lepto-meningitis is usually accompanied by encephalitis.

Above all the doctor—the doctor and the purulent trash and garbage of his pharmacopoeia!

The exudation may, as in iritis, be serous, plastic or purulent.

Blebs larger and more numerous on hands and arms; purulent matter oozing out from some of the pustules.

The left still continues to discharge a purulent looking matter.

Purulent otitis media follows dentition in some infants, usually, if not invariably, of a scrofulous diathesis.