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pure in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    arrant  complete  consummate  double-dyed  everlasting  gross  perfect  pure  sodding  stark  staring  thoroughgoing  utter  unadulterated 
  2. (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"
    pure 
  3. 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"
    pure 
  4. (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
    saturated  pure 
  5. 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"
    pure  vestal  virgin  virginal  virtuous 
  6. free from discordant qualities
    pure 
  7. concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
    "pure science"
    pure 
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