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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 | ||
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