impure

From Middle French impur, from Latin impurus

• Rhymes: -ʊə(r)

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

1. Not pure
   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.

   2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
   3. 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.”

• imperfect, tainted

• pure

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

• impure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• rumpie, umpire

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

impure

1. feminine singular of impur

impure f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective impuro.

impūre

1. vocative masculine singular of impūrus

impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

• 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