pure

Speech parts

1. pure - Noun

2. pure - Adjective

3. pure - Verb

4. pure - Adverb

6. pure - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.

Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

innocent unadulterated immaculate unsullied clean chaste virginal spotless unpolluted virgin true complete simple clear stark
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Antonyms

impure corrupt contaminated dirty sinful applied
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Phrases with the word

as pure as the driven snow pure blood be pure pure art not pure pure alcohol

Anagrams

puer Peru Prue reup Rupe

Examples

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. Sigmund Freud

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science. Louis Pasteur

A mare who has had a foal will never again drink pure water. Corsican Proverb

The heart of an evil person is never pure. Bamileke Proverb

Generosity is white and pure like milk. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Purdue Purdum purdy pure absence pure absolute alcohol pure air