pure
pronunciation
How to pronounce pure in British English:
UK [pjʊə(r)]
How to pronounce pure in American English:
US [pjʊr]
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- Adjective:
- free of extraneous elements of any kind
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black
- free from discordant qualities
- used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless
- in a state of sexual virginity
- not mixed
Word Origin
- pure
- pure: [13] Pure goes back ultimately to Latin pūrus ‘clean’, a word of ancient ancestry which was related to Sanskrit pūtás ‘purified’. It reached English via Old French pur. Amongst its Latin derivatives were the verbs pūrificāre ‘make pure’, source of English purify [14]; pūrāre ‘make pure’, which became French purer ‘purify, strain’, source of English purée [19]; and pūrigāre, later pūrgāre ‘purify’, source of English expurgate [17] and purge [14].=> expurgate, purge
- pure (adj.)
- c. 1300 (late 12c. as a surname, and Old English had purlamb "lamb without a blemish"), "unmixed," also "absolutely, entirely," from Old French pur "pure, simple, absolute, unalloyed," figuratively "simple, sheer, mere" (12c.), from Latin purus "clean, clear; unmixed; unadorned; chaste, undefiled," from PIE root *peue- "to purify, cleanse" (cognates: Latin putus "clear, pure;" Sanskrit pavate "purifies, cleanses," putah "pure;" Middle Irish ur "fresh, new;" Old High German fowen "to sift"). Replaced Old English hlutor. Meaning "free from moral corruption" is first recorded mid-14c. In reference to bloodlines, attested from late 15c.
Synonym
moral clean seemly immaculate becoming guiltless virgin sinless chaste wholesome virtuous celibate blameless decent innocent proper temperate
clean unblemished unsoiled immaculate white sterilized uncorrupted clear unstained germ-free spotless unsullied disinfected unblotted undistorted untainted stainless snowy sterile unpolluted unmarred fair antiseptic
theoretical academical conceptual nonobjective conjectural speculative postulational abstract notional
undisguised unartifical unfeigned perfect unmingled natural unalloyed pristine unfaked unadulterated uncoloured sterling unvarnished authentic real uncounterfeited undiluted unmixed genuine
Antonym
Example
- 1. How can you make your pure data fit a messy world ?
- 2. It 's a debate between pure software versus a mix of software and hardware .
- 3. Part of the problem of being a pure cable play is that you are hostage to the content providers .
- 4. Further , plenty of people do choose apple products based on pure , objective criteria .
- 5. Ghosn wants to be selling 1.5 million plug-ins and pure evs by 2017 .