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im·pure

(ĭm-pyo͝or′)

adj. im·pur·er, im·pur·est

1. Not pure or clean; contaminated.

2. Not purified by religious rite; unclean.

3. Immoral or sinful: impure thoughts.

4. Mixed with another, usually inferior substance; adulterated.

5. Being a composite of more than one color or mixed with black or white.

6. Deriving from more than one source, style, or convention; eclectic: an impure art form.

im·pure′ly adv.

im·pure′ness n.

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impure

(ɪmˈpjʊə)

adj

1. not pure; combined with something else; tainted or sullied

2. (Other Non-Christian Religions) (in certain religions)

a. (of persons) ritually unclean and as such debarred from certain religious ceremonies

b. (of foodstuffs, vessels, etc) debarred from certain religious uses

3. (General Physics) (of a colour) mixed with another colour or with black or white

4. (Architecture) of more than one origin or style, as of architecture or other design

imˈpurely adv

imˈpureness n

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im•pure

(ɪmˈpyʊər)

adj.

1. not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, esp. of an inferior nature: impure water.

2. modified by admixture, as color.

3. mixed or combined with something else: an impure style of architecture.

4. regarded by a religion as unclean.

5. not morally pure.

[1530–40; < Latin]

im•pure′ly, adv.

im•pure′ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	impure - combined with extraneous elements unclean, impure - 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 unprocessed - not altered from an original or natural state; "unprocessed commodities" pure - free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
	2.	impure - (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts" unchaste - not chaste; "unchaste conduct" pure - (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
	3.	impure - 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 unclean faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality" impure - combined with extraneous elements

impure

adjective

1. unrefined, mixed, alloyed, debased, adulterated, admixed impure diamonds

2. immoral, corrupt, obscene, indecent, gross, coarse, lewd, carnal, X-rated (informal), salacious, unclean, prurient, lascivious, smutty, lustful, ribald, immodest, licentious, indelicate, unchaste They say such behaviour might lead to impure temptations.
immoral moral, pure, decent, modest, delicate, wholesome, chaste

3. unclean, dirty, foul, infected, contaminated, polluted, filthy, tainted, sullied, defiled, unwholesome, vitiated They were warned against drinking the impure water from the stream.
unclean clean, immaculate, spotless, squeaky-clean, unsullied, undefiled

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

impure

adjective

1. Ceremonially or religiously unfit:

unclean.

2. Not chaste or moral:

immoral, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly.

3. Mixed with other substances:

adulterated, alloyed, doctored, loaded, sophisticated.

Translations

قَذِر، غَير صافٍ، فاسِد

nečistýznečištěný

uren

szennyezett

óhreinn, mengaîur

impuro impurit...

nešvarumaspriemaiša

netīrspiesārņots

urein

znečistený

kirli pis

不纯的

impure

[ɪmˈpjʊəʳ] ADJ (Chem) [substance, drug] → impuro, con impurezas; [water] → con impurezas, contaminado; (morally) [person, thought] → impuro

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

impure

[ɪmˈpjʊə^r] adj → impur(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

impure

adj water, drugs, thoughts, mind → unrein; food → verunreinigt; motives → unsauber

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

impure

[ɪmˈpjʊəʳ] adj (Chem) (morally) → impuro/a; (air) → inquinato/a

impure

(imˈpjue) adjective

dirty, with other substances mixed in; not pure. impure air; The water is impure.

imˈpurity noun

1. something which is mixed into another substance, but which should not be. There are too many impurities in this steel.

2. the state of being impure. Complaints were made about the impurity of the milk.

impure

a. impuro-a; contaminado-a, adulterado-a.

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Verily, no food of which the impure could be fellow-partakers!

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There are pictures of nude women which suggest no impure thought--I am well aware of that.

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"I am not alarmed," he replied; "I have too long foreseen this event, to feel alarmed at my approaching dissolution--no, for that, blessed be my God and my Redeemer, I am in some degree prepared; but I feel it impossible to shake off the feelings of this life while the pulse continues to beat, and yet the emotions I now experience must be in some measure allied to heaven; they are not impure, they are not selfish; nothing can partake of either, dear Charlotte, where your image is connected with the thoughts of a future world."

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Conspicuous among these latter, like an animated bit of the spiked wall of Newgate, Jerry stood: aiming at the prisoner the beery breath of a whet he had taken as he came along, and discharging it to mingle with the waves of other beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not, that flowed at him, and already broke upon the great windows behind him in an impure mist and rain.

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"I asked," said Athos, in the same language, "if there are two parliaments, a pure and an impure?"

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"No doubt of it, unless he is fortunate enough to catch the small-pox, and even that is difficult, for we never get any impure air here."

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"Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity?

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I should not dare to have an impure thought about you.

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Heaven's last gift, I think, is a mind so pure and a spirit so high that it is unable even to see what is impure and evil in the world around us.

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If by living thus reserved and austere, like a hermit in the woods, so long, it has acquired such wonderful purity, who would not regret that the comparatively impure waters of Flint's Pond should be mingled with it, or itself should ever go to waste its sweetness in the ocean wave?

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Glad was the Spirit impure as now in hope To find who might direct his wandring flight To Paradise the happie seat of Man, His journies end and our beginning woe.

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He assures them that their last sample is impure and quite useless for his present purpose.