adj., pur·er, pur·est.

1. Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen.
2. Free from adulterants or impurities: pure chocolate.
3. Free of dirt, defilement, or pollution: “A memory without blot or contamination must be . . . an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment” (Charlotte Brontë).
4. Free of foreign elements.
5. Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous: a pure literary style.
6. Complete; utter: pure folly.
7. Having no faults; sinless: “I felt pure and sweet as a new baby” (Sylvia Plath).
8. Chaste; virgin.
9. Of unmixed blood or ancestry.
10. Genetics. Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous: a pure line.
11. Music. Free from discordant qualities: pure tones.
12. Linguistics. Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal: a pure vowel.
13. Theoretical: pure science.
14. Philosophy. Free of empirical elements: pure reason.

[Middle English pur, from Old French, from Latin pūrus.]

purely pure'ly adv.
pureness pure'ness n.

SYNONYMS  pure, absolute, sheer, simple, unadulterated. These adjectives mean free of extraneous elements: pure gold; absolute oxygen; sheer alcohol; a simple substance; unadulterated coffee.

adjective

1. Not diluted or mixed with other substances: full-strength, neat, plain, straight, unblended, undiluted, unmixed. See clean/dirty, strong/weak.
2. Free from extraneous elements: absolute, perfect, plain, sheer², simple, unadulterated, undiluted, unmixed. See clean/dirty.
3. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, sheer², thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter². Informal flat-out, positive. Chiefly British blooming. See big/small/amount, limited/unlimited.
4. Free from evil and corruption: angelic, angelical, clean, innocent, lily-white, sinless, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, untainted, virginal. Idioms: pure as the driven snow. See clean/dirty, right/wrong, sex/asexual.
5. Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct: chaste, decent, modest, nice, virgin, virginal, virtuous. See good/bad, restraint/unrestraint, sex/asexual.

adj

Definition: absolute, utter
Antonyms: indefinite, uncertain

adj

Definition: clean, uncontaminated
Antonyms: contaminated, dirty, impure, polluted, tainted

adj

Definition: theoretical
Antonyms: applied, practical

adj

Definition: unmixed, genuine
Antonyms: adulterated, impure, mixed, ungenuine

adj

Definition: virginal, chaste
Antonyms: corrupt, dirty, immodest, immoral, indecent, obscene, unchaste, vulgar

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1. In the terminology of Kant, something is pure in so far as it is unmixed with elements derived from experience. Knowledge is usually made up of what we receive through impressions and what our faculty of know-ledge supplies from itself; knowledge is absolutely pure if it is attainable completely a priori. Pure reason is reason unmixed with anything empirical or practical: that concerned with the forms rather than the substance of knowledge. A pure concept or notion is opposed to an empirical concept, as having its origin in the understanding alone, and not in experience. Pure concepts include those of time and space, that have application in experience. But there are also pure notions that transcend the possibility of experience: God, free will, and immortality.

2. In set theory, a pure set is one in the Zermelo hierarchy, constructed entirely from the null set, and sets of sets (see Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory).

IN BRIEF: Not mixed with another substance. Also: Free from sin.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - ren

idioms:

• pure and simple    ganske enkel
• pure science    ren videnskab

Nederlands (Dutch)
puur, zuiver, louter

Français (French)
adj. - pur, propre, absolu, immaculé, naissant

idioms:

• pure and simple    pur et simple
• pure science    science pure

Deutsch (German)
adj. - pur, rein

idioms:

• pure and simple    schlicht und einfach
• pure science    reine Wissenschaft

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αγνός, αμιγής, ανόθευτος, καθαρός, (για επιστήμη κ.λπ.) θεωρητικός

idioms:

• pure and simple    ξεκάθαρα πράγματα!, καθαρά και ξάστερα!
• pure science    θεωρητική επιστήμη

Italiano (Italian)
puro, mero, immacolato

idioms:

• pure and simple    puro e semplice
• pure science    scienza pura

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - puro

idioms:

• pure and simple    puro e simples
• pure science    ciência pura

Русский (Russian)
чистый, невинный, беспримесный

idioms:

• pure and simple    просто-напросто
• pure science    теоретическая наука

Español (Spanish)
adj. - puro, claro, simple, inmaculado, castizo

idioms:

• pure and simple    puro y simple
• pure science    ciencias puras

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ren, oblandad, äkta, idel

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
纯的, 纯净的, 纯粹的

idioms:

• pure and simple    完全的, 十足的
• pure science    纯科学

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 純的, 純淨的, 純粹的

idioms:

• pure and simple    完全的, 十足的
• pure science    純科學

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 순수한, 순전한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - きれいな, 純粋な, 単一の, 純血の, 非協和音でない, 単母音の, 純粋の, 潔白な, 高潔な, 全くの, 澄んだ, 清潔な, 純系の

idioms:

• pure and simple    混じりけの無い, 純然たる
• pure science    理論科学

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) صافي, نقي, عفيف, مجرد, محض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮טהור, נקי, מוחלט, כליל, גרידא‬

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