Pure - Definition

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