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pure
Overview of adj pure
The adj pure has 7 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (28) pure -- (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")
2. (3) arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated -- (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")
3. (2) pure -- (concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science")
4. (1) saturated, pure -- ((of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)
5. (1) pure -- (free from discordant qualities)
6. pure -- ((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")
7. pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous -- (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")
Grep of noun pure
army of the pure
pure absence
pure binary numeration system
pure gold
pure imaginary number
pure mathematics
pure tone
pureblood
purebred
puree
pureness
Grep of verb pure
make pure
puree
Antonyms of adj pure
7 senses of pure
Sense 1
pure (vs. impure)
impure (vs. pure)
=> adulterate, adulterated, debased
=> alloyed
=> bastardized, bastardised
=> contaminated, polluted
=> dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
=> unpurified
Sense 2
arrant(prenominal), complete(prenominal), consummate(prenominal), double-dyed(prenominal), everlasting(prenominal), gross(prenominal), perfect(prenominal), pure(prenominal), sodding(prenominal), stark(prenominal), staring(prenominal), thoroughgoing(prenominal), utter(prenominal), unadulterated
INDIRECT (VIA unmitigated) -> mitigated
Sense 3
pure
INDIRECT (VIA theoretical) -> applied
Sense 4
saturated (vs. unsaturated), pure
Sense 5
pure
INDIRECT (VIA harmonious) -> inharmonious, unharmonious
Sense 6
pure (vs. impure)
impure (vs. pure)
=> defiled, maculate
Sense 7
pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
INDIRECT (VIA chaste) -> unchaste
Similarity of adj pure
7 senses of pure
Sense 1
pure (vs. impure)
=> axenic
=> clean, fresh
=> clean, clear, light, unclouded
=> fine
=> native
=> plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
=> pristine
=> purified, refined, sublimate
=> unadulterated
=> unalloyed
=> uncontaminated, unpolluted
=> virginal
Also See> clean#6; processed#3
Sense 2
arrant(prenominal), complete(prenominal), consummate(prenominal), double-dyed(prenominal), everlasting(prenominal), gross(prenominal), perfect(prenominal), pure(prenominal), sodding(prenominal), stark(prenominal), staring(prenominal), thoroughgoing(prenominal), utter(prenominal), unadulterated
=> unmitigated (vs. mitigated)
Sense 3
pure
=> theoretical (vs. applied)
Sense 4
saturated (vs. unsaturated), pure
=> intense, vivid
Sense 5
pure
=> harmonious (vs. inharmonious)
Sense 6
pure (vs. impure)
=> immaculate, undefiled
=> white
Also See> chaste#1
Sense 7
pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
=> chaste (vs. unchaste)
Pertainyms of adj pure
Attributes of adj pure
2 of 7 senses of pure
Sense 1
pure (vs. impure)
=> purity, pureness
Sense 6
pure (vs. impure)
=> morality
Domain of adj pure
Domain Terms of adj pure
Familiarity of adj pure
pure used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =7)
Grep of adj pure
impure
pure
pureblood
pureblooded
purebred
Grep of adv pure
purely
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