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Meaning of pure in English
Pronunciation
/pjʊr/
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Classifying Adjective
pure
Definitions
1.
concerned with theory and data rather than practice
Examples
« opposed to applied »
« pure science »
Synonyms
theoretical
2.
free from discordant qualities
Synonyms
harmonious
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.
not mixed
Examples
« pure oxygen »
Synonyms
absolute
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
2.
(of color) being chromatically pure
Examples
« not diluted with white or gray or black »
Synonyms
intense
vivid
Antonyms
unsaturated
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