impure

4 definitions found

impure - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Impure \Im*pure"\, v. t.
     To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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  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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impure - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  impure
      adj 1: combined with extraneous elements [ant: pure]
      2: (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure
         thoughts" [ant: pure]
      3: having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure
         according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and
         the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn:
         unclean, impure] [ant: clean]

impure - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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