Impure

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impure \Im*pure"\, v. t.
     To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Impure \Im*pure"\, a. [L. impurus; pref. im- not + purus pure:
     cf. F. impur. See {Pure}.]
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     1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing
        something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or
        impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure
        water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
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     2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of
        persons or things.
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     3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or
        ideas. "Impure desires." --Cowper.
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     4. (Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of
        Moses; unclean.
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     5. (Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin;
        an impure style.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impure
       adj 1: combined with extraneous elements [ant: {pure}]
       2: used of persons or behaviors; not morally pure; "impure
          thoughts" [ant: {pure}]
       3: ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to
          you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn: {unclean}] [ant: {clean}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  190 Moby Thesaurus words for "impure":
     Adamic, Doric, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, adulterated, alloyed,
     backsliding, barbaric, barbarous, bawdy, belowstairs, besmirched,
     black, blemished, blue, cacophonous, carnal, clumsy, coarse,
     common, contaminated, corrupted, crude, damaged, debased,
     defective, deficient, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dirty,
     dissolute, doggerel, dysphemistic, erring, erroneous, evil, fallen,
     fallible, faulty, feculent, filthy, fleshly, forbidden, foul,
     foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, found wanting, frail,
     fulsome, graceless, gross, grubby, harsh, immature, immodest,
     immoral, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, in bad taste,
     inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
     incorrect, indecent, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infected,
     infelicitous, infirm, ithyphallic, lacking, lapsed, lascivious,
     lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, low, lubricious,
     lubricous, lurid, lustful, maculate, makeshift, mediocre, mixed,
     nasty, native, nonkosher, not perfect, obscene, of easy virtue,
     off, offensive, outlandish, partial, patchy, peccable, polluted,
     pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, prurient,
     putrescent, putrid, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, ribald,
     ritually unclean, rotten, rude, run-of-mine, salacious, scarlet,
     scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, short, sinful, sketchy,
     smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, squalid, sullied,
     sultry, tainted, tasteless, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste,
     unclean, uncleanly, uncourtly, uncouth, undeveloped, undignified,
     uneuphonious, uneven, unfelicitous, unfinished, ungodly, ungood,
     ungraceful, ungraded, unhallowed, unholy, unperfected, unpolished,
     unprintable, unpure, unrefined, unrepeatable, unrighteous,
     unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unseemly, unsorted, unsound,
     unswept, unthorough, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped,
     vile, virtueless, vitiated, vulgar, wanting, wanton, wayward, weak,
     wicked