polluting

Causing pollution; having a tendency to pollute.

Adjective

  1. Causing pollution; having a tendency to pollute.
    • De-icing a plane is expensive, polluting, and time-consuming, so when sudden weather changes mean it has to be done twice, that has an impact on the bottom line, the environment and on-time departures. - 2023 May 5,...
    • But because rare earths are polluting to mine and process, it can take nearly three decades to get permission to open and operate a rare-earth mine in America, so finding substitutes won’t be easy. - 2025 April 19,...

Forms

more polluting most polluting

Derived

antipolluting nonpolluting pollutingly unpolluting

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of pollute