Thesaurus: pure
Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
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Definitions
- superl. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
- superl. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
- superl. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
- superl. Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
- superl. Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- adj. free of extraneous elements of any kind
- adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- adj. (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- adj. free from discordant qualities
- adj. concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
- adj. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
- adj. in a state of sexual virginity