Definition of 'pure'
Adjective
- free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
Antonyms: impure - without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
Synonyms: arrant complete consummate double-dyed everlasting gross perfect sodding stark staring thoroughgoing utter unadulterated - concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
Synonyms: saturated
Antonyms: unsaturated - free from discordant qualities
- (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
Antonyms: impure - in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"
Synonyms: vestal virgin virginal virtuous
