The adjective pure describes something that's made of only one substance and is not mixed with anything else. For example, your favorite soft, warm winter scarf might be made from pure merino wool.
A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.
Adjective S.
not mixed; "pure oxygen"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black
Adjective S.
concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
Adjective S.
free from discordant qualities
Adjective
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"
Adjective
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"
superl.
Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter;
free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as,
pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
superl.
Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent;
guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
superl.
Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or
pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
superl.
Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
superl.
Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some
vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
`pure" , n. [F.] (Fine Arts) A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.
Pure
The pure fetters on his shins great.
A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.2.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.3.
Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.4.
Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.5.
A draught or model from which to build; especially, one of the full size of the work to be done; a detailed drawing.
Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed;
Usage Examples
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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Other Usage ExamplesDreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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