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pure

/pjʊr/

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adjective
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
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"pure folly"

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arrant complete consummate double-dyed everlasting gross perfect sodding staring stark thorough thoroughgoing unadulterated utter unmitigated
adjective
in a state of sexual virginity
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"pure and vestal modesty" "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"

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vestal virgin virginal virtuous chaste
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(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
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saturated vivid intense
adjective
concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
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"pure science"

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theoretical
adjective
free from discordant qualities
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harmonious
adjective
free of extraneous elements of any kind
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"pure air and water" "pure gold" "pure primary colors" "the violin's pure and lovely song" "pure tones" "pure oxygen"

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fresh unpolluted axenic clean clear fine uncontaminated virginal unmingled unmixed light native plain pristine sheer straight up sublimate unadulterated unalloyed unclouded

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impure
adjective
(used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
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"I felt pure and sweet as a new baby" "pure as the driven snow"

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undefiled immaculate white

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impure

Examples of pure

"pure folly"
"pure and vestal modesty"
"men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"
"pure science"
"pure air and water"
"pure gold"
"pure primary colors"
"the violin's pure and lovely song"
"pure tones"
"pure oxygen"
"I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"
"pure as the driven snow"