Definition of Pure
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"
- 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
- (of colour) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white, grey or black
- saturated
- Free from discordant qualities
- Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
"pure science"
- (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
"I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"; "pure as the driven snow"
- 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
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