impure
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Adjective
editimpure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)
- Not pure
- Containing undesired intermixtures
- The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
- Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
- Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
- He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.
- 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery:
- “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”
- Containing undesired intermixtures
Synonyms
editAntonyms
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editRelated terms
editTranslations
editnot pure
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Verb
editimpure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)
- (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
References
edit- “impure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “impure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editimpure
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editimpure
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- impūrē: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /imˈpuː.reː/, [ɪmˈpuːreː]
- impūrē: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpu.re/, [imˈpuːre]
- impūre: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /imˈpuː.re/, [ɪmˈpuːrɛ]
- impūre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpu.re/, [imˈpuːre]
Etymology 1
editAdverb
editimpūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
editimpūre
References
edit- “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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