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pure

• (a) 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
• (s) 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
  arrant, double-dyed, sodding, utter, everlasting, perfect, staring, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, consummate, complete, stark, gross,
• (a) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black saturated,
• (s) free from discordant qualities
• (s) concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
  • pure science
• (a) (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
• (s) 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
  vestal, virgin, virtuous, virginal,

Synonyms

arrant double-dyed sodding utter everlasting perfect staring thoroughgoing unadulterated consummate complete stark gross saturated vestal virgin virtuous virginal

Antonyms

impure unsaturated

See also

clean processed chaste

Words of close approximity