mongrelized

Made of mixed stock

Mongrelized describes something made mixed or impure by combining disparate elements.

The word derives from mongrel—a dog of mixed or unknown breeding—and carries strongly negative connotations of contamination or degradation.

It appears most often in racist rhetoric about racial mixing or cultural blending: They claimed the nation's bloodlines had been mongrelized.

Outside explicitly bigoted contexts, the word is rare and almost always pejorative.

impurity

contaminated

Made impure by contact

defiled · corrupted · degraded · diluted · debased · sullied · tarnished · bastardized · cheapened · compromised

hybridization

crossbred

Mixed genetic heritage

fused · amalgamated · combined · composite · intermixed · melded · synthesized · merged · intermingled · grafted

heterogeneity

mutt

Mixed-breed dog

mishmash · jumbled · variegated · polyglot · cosmopolitan · multicultural · pluralistic · eclectic · diverse · assorted

Opposites
genetic/breed purity

mongrelizedpurebred

Of single breed ancestry

pedigreed · pure-blooded · thoroughbred · full-blooded · unmixed

cultural/linguistic mixing

mongrelizedpure

Unmixed, without impurities

unadulterated · homogeneous · authentic · pristine · untainted

Family

mongrelize, mongrelizing, mongrelization

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13