| Pronunciation: | | im'pyûr
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| Matching Terms: | | impuration, impurely, impureness, impurity, impurple
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- [adj] (religion) ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
- [adj] used of persons or behaviors; not morally pure; "impure thoughts"
- [adj] combined with extraneous elements
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| | Synonyms: | | adulterate, adulterated, alloyed, bastardised, bastardized, composite, contaminated, debased, defiled, dingy, maculate, muddied, muddy, nonkosher, polluted, terefah, tref, unclean, unpurified, untouchable |
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| | Antonyms: | | clean, pure |
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| | See Also: | | dirty, impure, soiled, unchaste, unprocessed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Im*pure"\, a. [L. impurus; pref. im- not + purus pure:
cf. F. impur. See {Pure}.]
1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing
something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or
impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure
water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of
persons or things.
3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or
ideas. ``Impure desires.'' --Cowper.
4. (Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of
Moses; unclean.
5. (Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin;
an impure style.
\Im*pure"\, v. t.
To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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| | Related Terms: | | Adamic, adulterated, alloyed, backsliding, barbaric, barbarous, bawdy, belowstairs, besmirched, black, blemished, blue, cacophonous, carnal, clumsy, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupted, crude, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dissolute, doggerel, Doric, dysphemistic, erring, erroneous, evil, fallen, fallible, faulty, feculent, Fescennine, filthy, fleshly, forbidden, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, found wanting, frail, fulsome, graceless, gross, grubby, harsh, immature, immodest, immoral, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infected, infelicitous, infirm, ithyphallic, lacking, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, maculate, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, nasty, native, nonkosher, not perfect, obscene, of easy virtue, off, offensive, outlandish, partial, patchy, peccable, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, prurient, putrescent, putrid, Rabelaisian, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, rude, run-of-mine, salacious, scarlet, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, short, sinful, sketchy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted, tasteless, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, uncourtly, uncouth, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven, unfelicitous, unfinished, ungodly, ungood, ungraceful, ungraded, unhallowed, unholy, unperfected, unpolished, unprintable, unpure, unrefined, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unseemly, unsorted, unsound, unswept, unthorough, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, virtueless, vitiated, vulgar, wanting, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked |
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