Meaning & Definition of Pure in English

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"

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"

3. (of color) being chromatically pure

• Not diluted with white or grey or black

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"

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"