Definition of Pure

Adjective: pure (purer,purest)  pyûr

  1. 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"
     
  2. Without qualification; used informally as an (often pejorative) intensifier
    "pure folly";
    - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
     
  3. (of colour) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white, grey or black
    - saturated
     
  4. Free from discordant qualities
     
  5. Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
    "pure science"
     
  6. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
    "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"; "pure as the driven snow"
     
  7. 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

See also:
purdas
pureblood

Anagrams containing the word pure

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