English adjective: pure | |||
1. | pure free of extraneous elements of any kind | ||
Samples | Pure air and water. Pure gold. Pure primary colors. The violin's pure and lovely song. Pure tones. Pure oxygen. | ||
Similar | axenic, clean, clean, clear, fine, fresh, light, native, plain, pristine, sheer, sublimate, unadulterated, unalloyed, unclouded, uncontaminated, unmingled, unmixed, unpolluted, virginal | ||
See also | clean, processed | ||
Attribute | pureness, purity | ||
Antonyms | impure | ||
2. | pure without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | ||
Samples | An arrant fool. A complete coward. A consummate fool. A double-dyed villain. Gross negligence. A perfect idiot. Pure folly. What a sodding mess. Stark staring mad. A thoroughgoing villain. Utter nonsense. The unadulterated truth. | ||
Synonyms | arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter | ||
Similar | unmitigated | ||
Antonyms | mitigated | ||
3. | pure (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | ||
Synonyms | saturated | ||
Similar | intense, vivid | ||
Antonyms | unsaturated | ||
4. | pure free from discordant qualities | ||
Similar | harmonious | ||
Antonyms | inharmonious, unharmonious | ||
5. | pure concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | ||
Samples | Pure science. | ||
Similar | theoretical | ||
Antonyms | applied | ||
6. | pure (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless | ||
Samples | I felt pure and sweet as a new baby. Pure as the driven snow. | ||
Similar | immaculate, undefiled, white | ||
See also | chaste | ||
Attribute | morality | ||
Antonyms | impure | ||
7. | pure in a state of sexual virginity | ||
Samples | Pure and vestal modesty. A spinster or virgin lady. Men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal. | ||
Synonyms | vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous | ||
Similar | chaste | ||
Antonyms | unchaste | ||