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[syn: unclean, impure]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Impure \Im*pure"\, v. t.
To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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