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Meaning of pure in English

  1. Pronunciation

    /pjʊr/

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    pure

    Definitions

    1. concerned with theory and data rather than practice

    Examples

    • « opposed to applied »
    • « pure science »

    Synonyms

    • theoretical
  2. 2. free from discordant qualities

    Synonyms

    • harmonious
  3. 3. in a state of sexual virginity

    Examples

    • « pure and vestal modesty »
    • « a spinster or virgin lady »
    • « men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal »

    Synonyms

    • chaste
  4. 4. not mixed

    Examples

    • « pure oxygen »

    Synonyms

    • absolute
  5. Qualitative Adjective

    pure

    Etymology

    Middle English: from Old French pur‘pure’, from Latin purus

    Definitions

    1. free of extraneous elements of any kind

    Examples

    • « pure air and water »
    • « pure gold »
    • « pure primary colors »
    • « the violin's pure and lovely song »
    • « pure tones »

    Synonyms

    • axenic
    • clean
    • fresh
    • clean
    • clear
    • light
    • unclouded
    • fine
    • f.
    • native
    • plain
    • sheer
    • unmingled
    • unmixed
    • pristine
    • purified
    • refined
    • sublimate
    • unadulterated
    • unalloyed
    • uncontaminated
    • unpolluted
    • virginal

    Antonyms

    • impure
  6. 2. (of color) being chromatically pure

    Examples

    • « not diluted with white or gray or black »

    Synonyms

    • intense
    • vivid

    Antonyms

    • unsaturated
  7. 3. used of persons or behaviors

    Examples

    • « having no faults »
    • « sinless »
    • « I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath »
    • « pure as the driven snow »

    Synonyms

    • immaculate
    • undefiled
    • white

    Antonyms

    • impure

See also

  • chaste

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