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单词 pure
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pureadjective

uk/pjʊər/us/pjʊr/

pure adjective (NOT MIXED)

B1 not mixed with anything else:

a pure cotton shirt
pure orange juice
pure English honey
a pure Arab horse

A pure colour is not mixed with any other colour:

a swan's pure white plumage

A pure sound is clear and perfect:

the pure vocal tones of the choirboy

B1 clean and free from harmful substances:

The mountain air was wonderfully pure.
Tap water is never chemically pure.
Opposite
impure

More examples

  • a shirt made of pure cotton
  • He was wearing a suit made from pure silk.
  • Is this plate pure gold?
  • This is a pedigree poodle - her bloodline is pure.
  • Her singing voice has a pure, crystalline quality.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Natural and artificial

  • artificial
  • bogus
  • cardboard
  • claim
  • contrived
  • fake
  • inauthentic
  • make no claim to be sth idiom
  • man-made
  • mock
  • natural
  • naturally
  • organic
  • plastic
  • raw
  • simulate
  • synthetic
  • unadulterated
  • unaffected
  • unbleached

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The qualities of colour
Describing qualities of sound
Clean & tidy
Unspoilt

pure adjective (COMPLETE)

B2 [ before noun ] complete; only:

It was pure coincidence/chance that we met.
This last month has been pure hell.
Her face had a look of pure delight.
The president dismissed the newspaper reports as pure speculation.

[ before noun ] used to refer to an area of study that is studied only for the purpose of developing theories about it, not for the purpose of using those theories in a practical way:

pure mathematics
pure economics
pure and simple

used after a noun to mean "and nothing else":

He is motivated by greed, pure and simple.

More examples

  • His face wore a look of pure contentment.
  • It was pure coincidence that I remembered his phone number.
  • She gave him a look of pure hate.
  • That article was based on pure supposition.
  • The projected sales figures are pure guesswork on our part.

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Complete and whole

  • A, a
  • a/one hundred percent idiom
  • absolutely
  • all or nothing idiom
  • all-in-one
  • all-inclusive
  • completely
  • flat
  • full-fledged
  • full-length
  • fully
  • fully fledged
  • heart and soul idiom
  • root
  • totally
  • unadulterated
  • unconditional
  • uncut
  • undivided
  • unequivocal

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Subjects & disciplines
Linguistics: intensifying expressions

pure adjective (MORALLY GOOD)

behaving in a way that is morally good, especially in things related to sex:

I'm trying to think only pure thoughts.
He invited me up to his flat for coffee, but I didn't think that his motives were entirely pure.
In many cultures, it is considered important for a woman to keep herself pure (= not to have sex) until she marries.
Opposite
impure

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Virtue and moral good

  • altruism
  • angel
  • angelic
  • be as pure as the driven snow idiom
  • be on the side of the angels idiom
  • clean
  • goodness
  • lily-white
  • moral
  • nobility
  • noble
  • principled
  • purity
  • spinach
  • straight
  • the road to hell is paved with good intentions idiom
  • the straight and narrow idiom
  • unselfish
  • upliftment
  • virtue

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Idiom(s)

be as pure as the driven snow
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