- purulent
- adj1. suppurating, gathering, festering, mattering, maturating, coming or drawing to a head; discharging, excreting, draining, running.2. ulcerous, ulcerative, ulcerated, festered, furuncu-lar, furunculous, cankerous, cankered; gangrenous, gangrened, morbid, mortified, necrotic, necrosed, sphacelated; contaminated, infested, tainted, septic, bad, peccant.3. suppurative, suppurated, puslike, Med. puruloid, Pathol. sanious, Pathol. impetiginous, Pathol. gleety, Pathol. leukorrheal.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.