 |
purer
Overview of adj pure
The adj pure has 7 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (28) pure -- (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")
2. (3) arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated -- (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")
3. (2) pure -- (concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science")
4. (1) saturated, pure -- ((of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)
5. (1) pure -- (free from discordant qualities)
6. pure -- ((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")
7. pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous -- (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")
Antonyms of adj pure
7 senses of pure
Sense 1
pure (vs. impure)
impure (vs. pure)
=> adulterate, adulterated, debased
=> alloyed
=> bastardized, bastardised
=> contaminated, polluted
=> dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
=> unpurified
Sense 2
arrant(prenominal), complete(prenominal), consummate(prenominal), double-dyed(prenominal), everlasting(prenominal), gross(prenominal), perfect(prenominal), pure(prenominal), sodding(prenominal), stark(prenominal), staring(prenominal), thoroughgoing(prenominal), utter(prenominal), unadulterated
INDIRECT (VIA unmitigated) -> mitigated
Sense 3
pure
INDIRECT (VIA theoretical) -> applied
Sense 4
saturated (vs. unsaturated), pure
Sense 5
pure
INDIRECT (VIA harmonious) -> inharmonious, unharmonious
Sense 6
pure (vs. impure)
impure (vs. pure)
=> defiled, maculate
Sense 7
pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
INDIRECT (VIA chaste) -> unchaste
Similarity of adj pure
7 senses of pure
Sense 1
pure (vs. impure)
=> axenic
=> clean, fresh
=> clean, clear, light, unclouded
=> fine
=> native
=> plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
=> pristine
=> purified, refined, sublimate
=> unadulterated
=> unalloyed
=> uncontaminated, unpolluted
=> virginal
Also See> clean#6; processed#3
Sense 2
arrant(prenominal), complete(prenominal), consummate(prenominal), double-dyed(prenominal), everlasting(prenominal), gross(prenominal), perfect(prenominal), pure(prenominal), sodding(prenominal), stark(prenominal), staring(prenominal), thoroughgoing(prenominal), utter(prenominal), unadulterated
=> unmitigated (vs. mitigated)
Sense 3
pure
=> theoretical (vs. applied)
Sense 4
saturated (vs. unsaturated), pure
=> intense, vivid
Sense 5
pure
=> harmonious (vs. inharmonious)
Sense 6
pure (vs. impure)
=> immaculate, undefiled
=> white
Also See> chaste#1
Sense 7
pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
=> chaste (vs. unchaste)
Pertainyms of adj pure
Attributes of adj pure
2 of 7 senses of pure
Sense 1
pure (vs. impure)
=> purity, pureness
Sense 6
pure (vs. impure)
=> morality
Domain of adj pure
Domain Terms of adj pure
Familiarity of adj pure
pure used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =7)
Grep of adj pure
impure
pure
pureblood
pureblooded
purebred
|
|
