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pure (pyʊr)
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.




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