Impure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not pure or clean; contaminated.
  • adj. Not purified by religious rite; unclean.
  • adj. Immoral or sinful: impure thoughts.
  • adj. Mixed with another, usually inferior substance; adulterated.
  • adj. Being a composite of more than one color or mixed with black or white.
  • adj. Deriving from more than one source, style, or convention; eclectic: an impure art form.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
  • adj. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
  • v. (obsolete) to defile; to pollute
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated
  • adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
  • adj. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene.
  • adj. Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
  • adj. Not accurate; not idiomatic
  • v. To defile; to pollute.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not pure physically; mixed or impregnated with extraneous, and especially with offensive, matter; foul; feculent; tainted: as, impure water or air; impure salt or magnesia.
  • Not simple or unmixed; mixed or combined with something else: said of immaterial things.
  • Not pure morally; unchaste; obscene; lewd: as, impure language or ideas; impure actions.
  • Of a contaminating nature; causing defilement, physical or moral; unclean; abominable.
  • Not in conformity with a standard of correctness, simplicity, etc.: as, an impure style of writing.
  • To make impure; defile.
  • To grow impure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. combined with extraneous elements
  • adj. (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
  • adj. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    pure   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dirty    foul    filthy    adulterated    unholy    unhallowed    unchaste    lewd    unclean    obscene   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baldur    Bloor    Moor    Moore    Muir    Ruhr    Ur    allure    assure    bonjour   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unclean    sinful    immoral    impious    sordid    vile    profane    carnal    degrade    unholy