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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 (often pejorative) intensifiers
"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 or 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
Derived forms: purer, purest See also: axenic, chaste, clean, clear, fine, fresh, harmonious, immaculate, intense, light, morality, native, plain, pristine, processed, pureness, purity, sheer, sublimate, theoretical, unadulterated, unalloyed, unclouded, uncontaminated, undefiled, unmingled, unmitigated, unmixed, unpolluted, virginal, vivid, white Antonym: impure Encyclopedia: Pure Pure, Ardennes |