impure

impure
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Impure — Im*pure , a. [L. impurus; pref. im not + purus pure: cf. F. impur. See {Pure}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Impure — Im*pure , v. t. To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • impure — index bad (inferior), blemished, disreputable, dissolute, immoral, lewd, licentious, marred …   Law dictionary

  • impure — (adj.) mid 15c., from M.Fr. impur (13c.), from L. impurus unclean, filthy, foul, from assimilated form of in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + purus pure (see PURE (Cf. pure)). As a noun from 1784. Related: Impurely …   Etymology dictionary

  • impure — [adj] not clean mentally, physically; mixed admixed, adulterated, alloyed, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, doctored*, filthy, foul, gross*, grubby*, immodest, immoral, indecent,… …   New thesaurus

  • impure — ► ADJECTIVE 1) mixed with foreign matter; adulterated or tainted. 2) morally wrong, especially in sexual matters. 3) contaminated according to ritual prescriptions …   English terms dictionary

  • impure — [im pyoor′] adj. [L impurus] not pure; specif., a) unclean; dirty b) unclean according to religious ritual; defiled c) obscene; unchaste d) mixed with foreign matter; adulterated e) mixed so as to lack purity in color, tone, style, etc …   English World dictionary

  • impure — ● impur, impure adjectif (latin impurus) Qui n est pas pur, dont la composition est altérée par la présence d éléments étrangers : Produit brut, impur qui doit être raffiné. Qui est souillé, infecté par des éléments corrompus, pathogènes : L air… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • impure — adjective 1 an impure substance has something else mixed with it, especially something of a lower quality: An added danger was that the group was using impure sodium chlorate in their bombs. opposite pure (1) 2 old fashioned or humorous impure… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • impure — impurely, adv. impureness, n. /im pyoor /, adj. 1. not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, esp. of an inferior or contaminating nature: impure water and air. 2. modified by admixture, as color. 3. mixed or combined with something else: an impure… …   Universalium

  • impure — adjective a) 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 …   Wiktionary

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