| ADJECTIVE | all | germy | full of germs or pathological microorganisms |
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| Meaning | Full of germs or pathological microorganisms. | |
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| Example | "the water in New York harbor is oily and dirty and germy" | |
| Narrower | unsterilized, unsterilised | not sterilized |
| See also | septic, infected | Containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms |
| Opposite | germfree | Free from germs or pathogenic organisms |
| Nouns | germ | a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium) |
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