impure
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French impur, from Latin impurus
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
AdjectiveEdit
impure (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
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TranslationsEdit
not pure
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VerbEdit
impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)
- (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
ReferencesEdit
- impure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
- impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
impure
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
impure f pl
LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdverbEdit
impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)
Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
impūre
ReferencesEdit
- 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