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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

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