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| 1. | [ adjective ] 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" |
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| Related terms: | impure purified plain clean clean pristine axenic simple unadulterated fine uncontaminated unalloyed virginal native clean processed purity | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | |
| Synonyms: | utter complete double-dyed everlasting gross perfect sodding stark staring thoroughgoing consummate arrant | |
| Examples: | "an arrant fool" "a complete coward" "a consummate fool" "gross negligence" "a perfect idiot" "pure folly" "what a sodding mess" "stark staring mad" "utter nonsense" |
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| Related terms: | unmitigated | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | |
| Examples: | "pure science" |
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| Related terms: | theoretical | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] free from discordant qualities | |
| Related terms: | harmonious | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black | |
| Synonyms: | saturated | |
| Related terms: | unsaturated intense | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (sexuality) in a state of sexual virginity | |
| Synonyms: | virgin virginal virtuous vestal | |
| Examples: | "pure and vestal modesty" "a spinster or virgin lady" "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" |
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| Related terms: | chaste | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless | |
| Examples: | "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath "pure as the driven snow" |
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| Related terms: | impure immaculate white chaste morality | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] not mixed | |
| Synonyms: | unmixed undiluted | |
| Examples: | "pure oxygen" |
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| Related terms: | absolute | |
| Similar spelling: |
puree purr Pura |
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