Pure - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |pjʊr|  American pronunciation of the word pure
Brit.  |pjʊə|  British pronunciation of the word pure

adjective

- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers (syn: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter)
pure folly
- free from discordant qualities
- concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
pure science
- in a state of sexual virginity (syn: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous)
pure and vestal modesty
men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal

Extra examples

The company bottles only the purest water.

It is pure conjecture.

He is motivated by greed, pure and simple.

Our beef patties are 100% pure.

My mother's life was pure hell.

By pure chance, I met Sir Malcolm that morning.

The chairman dismissed the report as pure speculation.

We had trouble finding a pure water supply.

Up here the air was purer.

They're too pure and innocent to know what's really going on.

Her voice, clear and pure, soared up to the roof.

His music is pure New York.

My husband is pure Japanese and traces his family back 800 years.

The Highland is the oldest and purest breed of cattle in Britain.

Gothic architecture in its purest form

Word forms

adjective
comparative: purer
superlative: purest
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