‘PURE’ ‘Pure’ … Meaning.
August 8, 2020
Wordweb meaning….
Adjective: pure (purer,purest) pyûr
- Free of extraneous elements of any kind
“pure air and water“; “pure gold“; “pure primary colours“; “the violin’s pure and lovely song“; “pure tones“; “pure oxygen“
- Free from discordant qualities
- Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
“pure science“
- In a state of sexual virginity
“pure and vestal modesty“; “men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal“;
– vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous, maiden
- Without qualification; used informally as an (often pejorative) intensifier
“pure folly“;
– arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated, rigorous
- (of colour) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white, grey or black
– saturated
- (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
“I felt pure and sweet as a new baby“; “pure as the driven snow“
Derived forms: purer, purest
See also: axenic, chaste, clean, clear, fine, fresh, harmonious, immaculate, intemerate [rare], intense, light, morality, native, plain, pristine, processed, pureness, purity, sheer, straight up, sublimate, theoretical, unadulterated, unalloyed, unclouded, uncontaminated, undefiled, unmingled, unmitigated, unmixed, unpolluted, virginal, vivid, white
Antonym: impure
Encyclopedia: Pure, White and Deadly
