pure
1. free of extraneous elements of any kind (Freq. 18)
- pure air and water
- pure gold
- pure primary colors
- the violin's pure and lovely song
- pure tones
- pure oxygen
• Ant:
impure
• Similar to:
axenic, clean, fresh, clear, light,
unclouded, fine, native, plain, sheer, unmingled,
unmixed, pristine, sublimate, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncontaminated,
unpolluted, virginal
• See Also:
clean, processed
• Derivationally related forms:
pureness, purity
• Attrubites:
purity, pureness
2. without qualification;
used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers (Freq. 2)
- 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
• Syn:
arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting,
gross, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing,
utter, unadulterated
• Similar to:
unmitigated
3. (of color) being chromatically pure;
not diluted with white or grey or black (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
saturated
• Ant:
unsaturated (for: saturated)
• Similar to:
intense, vivid
• Derivationally related forms:
pureness
4. free from discordant qualities (Freq. 1)
• Similar to:
harmonious
5. concerned with theory and data rather than practice;
opposed to applied (Freq. 1)
- pure science
• Similar to:
theoretical
6. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults;
sinless
- "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath
- pure as the driven snow
• Ant:
impure
• Similar to:
immaculate, undefiled, white
• See Also:
chaste
• Derivationally related forms:
pureness, purity
• Attrubites:
morality
7. in a state of sexual virginity
- pure and vestal modesty
- a spinster or virgin lady
- men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
• Syn:
vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
• Similar to:
chaste
• Derivationally related forms:
virtue (for: virtuous), virgin (for: virginal), virgin (for: virgin), virginity (for: virgin), vestal (for: vestal), pureness, purity
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