processed

That has completed a required process.

Adjective

  1. That has completed a required process.
    • The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.
    • The bank returned her processed application by mail.
  2. Modified through manufacture such as refinement or food processing.
    • Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.
    • You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them. - 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 80:

Origin

Etymology tree English process English -ed English processed From process + -ed.

Forms

more processed most processed

Synonyms

refined manufactured

Antonyms

unprocessed modified through manufacture

Related

synthetic

Derived

cryo-processed Dutch-processed hydroprocessed hyperprocessed immunoprocessed microprocessed nonprocessed processed cheese processed food processed meat semiprocessed ultraprocessed ultra-processed ultra-processed food

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of process