What is the meaning of pure?

adjective

  • Free of extraneous elements of any kind.
    • usage: "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
  • Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
    • usage: "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"
  • Of color. ( being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)
  • Free from discordant qualities.
  • Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied.
    • usage: "pure science"
  • Used of persons or behaviors. ( having no faults; sinless)
    • usage: "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
  • In a state of sexual virginity.
    • usage: "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"
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