pure

/pjuə/

Thân thiện

A scientist analyzes a sample of pure water in the laboratory.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Free from anything that contaminates or adulterates; not mixed with any other substance: Describes something that is unmixed, unadulterated, or in its natural state.
   • Free from moral fault or guilt; innocent: Describes a person, intention, or action that is morally good, sinless, or chaste.
   • Theoretical or abstract, not applied: Concerned with principles and theory rather than practical application.
   • Complete; utter; sheer: Used as an intensifier to emphasize the absolute nature of a quality, often negative.
   • (Of a sound or color) Clear and unmixed: Describes a sound that is a single frequency or a color that is not diluted with white, black, or grey.

Usage Examples

• Free from contamination:
  • The laboratory requires pure water for the experiment.
  • She wore a necklace made of pure gold.
• Morally innocent:
  • He believed her motives were pure.
  • The story is about a knight with a pure heart.
• Theoretical:
  • He is more interested in pure mathematics than in engineering applications.
• Complete; utter:
  • It was pure luck that we found the key.
  • His reaction was pure jealousy.
• Clear and unmixed:
  • The singer hit a pure high note.
  • The artist preferred using pure blue, straight from the tube.

Advanced Usage

• "Pure and simple": Used to emphasize that something is nothing other than what is stated.
  • The decision was based on greed, pure and simple.
• "As pure as the driven snow": An idiom describing someone or something as completely innocent, virtuous, or chaste.
  • She presents herself as being as pure as the driven snow.

Variants and Related Words

• Purely (adverb): In a pure manner; exclusively or merely.
  • The decision was purely financial.
• Purity (noun): The state or quality of being pure.
  • They tested the purity of the air.
• Purify (verb): To make something pure by removing contaminants.
  • The system purifies the water.
• Purist (noun): A person who insists on absolute adherence to traditional rules or structures.
  • A language purist.

Synonyms

• Unadulterated: Not mixed or diluted with any different or extra elements.
• Unalloyed: (Of a metal) not mixed with another; (figuratively) complete and unreserved.
• Chaste: Abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse; simple or plain in style.
• Sheer: Nothing other than; unqualified.

Antonyms

• Impure: Mixed with foreign matter; morally wrong.
• Contaminated: Made impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
• Applied: (Of a subject of study) put to practical use as opposed to being theoretical.

Related Idioms

• "The pure in heart": A biblical phrase referring to those who are morally and spiritually clean.
  • Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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
2. (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
3. concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
   • pure science
4. free from discordant qualities
5. (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
6. 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
7. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• vestal
• virgin
• virginal
• virtuous
• saturated