pure
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
Inflected forms:
form: purer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more pure
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: purest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most pure
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: puring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
pos: adj
examples: Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
gloss: Free of foreign material or pollutants.
pos: adj
examples: A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme.
"Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."
gloss: Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
pos: adj
examples: Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.
gloss: Mere; that and that only.
pos: adj
examples: That idea is pure madness!
gloss: Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
pos: adj
examples: The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
gloss: Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
pos: adj
gloss: Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
pos: adj
gloss: Having no side effects.
pos: adj
examples: a pure method
gloss: A lot of.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...
gloss: to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
pos: adv
tags: Scotland
not-comparable
examples: You’re pure busy.
I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
gloss: To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
pos: verb
examples: Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
gloss: To cleanse; to refine.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: One who, or that which, is pure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]
All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]
Synonyms: chaste
cherry
clean
flawless
halal
ideal
immaculate
kosher
mere
natural
perfect
pristine
pure
simon-pure
unadulterated
unalloyed
uncontaminated
undefiled
unpolluted
unsullied
untainted
untouched
virgin
Antonyms: adulterated
contaminated
defiled
denatured
dirtied/dirty
filthy
flawed
haram
impure
polluted
sullied
tainted
treyf
unclean
Related words: purification
purify
purism
purist
puritan
puritanism
purity
non-mixture
Derived words: as pure as the driven snow
fullblood
pure air
pure and simple
pure as driven snow
pure as the driven snow
pureblood
pureblooded
pure blue
purebred
pure-bred
purebreed
pure cancer
pure collector
pure country
pure customer
pure democracy
pure ego
pure endowment
pure evil
pure finder
pure gatherer
pure good
pure-hearted
pure imaginary number
pure-impure
pure laine
pure land
pure mathematics
pure name
pureness
pure O
pure-out
pureplay
pure-play
pure quartz
pure quill
pure salvage
pure science
pure sex
pure virtual function
pure virtual method
purey
purie
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