adjective
- tending to contaminate or capable of causing contamination; having the quality of making something impure or unclean
Usage: formal; technical
Examples
- The factory's contaminative emissions posed a serious threat to the local water supply.
- Scientists identified several contaminative substances in the soil samples.
- The contaminative effects of the chemical spill lasted for months.
- Proper disposal procedures are essential to prevent contaminative spread of hazardous materials.
- The study examined the contaminative properties of various industrial byproducts.