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1. Free of extraneous elements of any kind
   "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colours"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
    
2. Without qualification; used informally as an (often pejorative) intensifier
   "pure folly";
   - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated, rigorous
    
3. Free from discordant qualities
    
4. Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
   "pure science"
    
5. In a state of sexual virginity
   "pure and vestal modesty"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal";
   - vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous, maiden
    
6. (of colour) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white, grey or black
   - saturated
    
7. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
   "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"; "pure as the driven snow"

Derived forms: purer, purest

See also: axenic, chaste, clean, clear, fine, fresh, harmonious, immaculate, intemerate [rare], intense, light, morality, native, plain, pristine, processed, pureness, purity, sheer, straight up, sublimate, theoretical, unadulterated, unalloyed, unclouded, uncontaminated, undefiled, unmingled, unmitigated, unmixed, unpolluted, virginal, vivid, white

Antonym: impure

Encyclopedia: Pure, White and Deadly