pure

Meanings

• 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"
• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
  • "pure folly"
• (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
• free from discordant qualities
• concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
  • "pure science"
• (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; - Sylvia Plath
  • "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"
  • "pure as the driven snow"
• in a state of sexual virginity
  • "pure and vestal modesty"
  • "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"

Synonyms

arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, saturated, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous