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pure
adjective
1 pure
Free of extraneous elements of any kind.
Roget 990:
worshipping
etc.
v.;
devout,
devotional,
reverent,
pure,
solemn;
fervid
etc.
(heartfelt)
821.
Roget 987:
pious,
religious,
devout,
devoted,
reverent,
godly,
heavenly-minded,
humble,
pure,
holy,
spiritual,
pietistic;
saintly,
saint-like;
seraphic,
sacred,
solemn.
believing,
faithful,
Christian,
Catholic.
elected,
adopted,
justified,
sanctified,
regenerated,
inspired,
consecrated,
converted,
unearthly,
not of the earth.
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Roget 576:
plain,
simple;
unornamented,
unadorned,
unvarnished;
homely,
homespun;
neat;
severe,
chaste,
pure,
Saxon;
commonplace,
matter-of-fact,
natural,
prosaic.
dry,
unvaried,
monotonous
etc.
575.
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Roget 850:
in good taste,
cute,
tasteful,
tasty;
unaffected,
pure,
chaste,
classical,
attic;
cultivated,
refined;
dainty;
esthetic,
aesthetic,
artistic;
elegant
etc.
578;
euphemistic.
to one's taste,
to one's mind;
after one's fancy;
comme il faut [Fr.];
tire a quatre epingles [Fr.].
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Roget 703:
artless,
natural,
pure,
native,
confiding,
simple,
lain,
inartificial†,
untutored,
unsophisticated,
ingenu†,
unaffected,
naive;
sincere,
frank;
open,
open as day;
candid,
ingenuous,
guileless;
unsuspicious,
honest
etc.
939;
innocent
etc.
946;
Arcadian†;
undesigning,
straightforward,
unreserved,
aboveboard;
simple-minded,
single-minded;
frank-hearted,
open-hearted,
single-hearted,
simple-hearted.
free-spoken,
plain-spoken,
outspoken;
blunt,
downright,
direct,
matter of fact,
unpoetical†;
unflattering.
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Roget 578:
elegant,
polished,
classical,
Attic,
correct,
Ciceronian,
artistic;
chaste,
pure,
Saxon,
academical†.
graceful,
easy,
readable,
fluent,
flowing,
tripping;
unaffected,
natural,
unlabored†;
mellifluous;
euphonious,
euphemism,
euphemistic;
numerose†,
rhythmical.
felicitous,
happy,
neat;
well put,
neatly put,
well expressed,
neatly expressed
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Roget 543:
truthful,
true;
veracious,
veridical;
scrupulous
etc.
(honorable)
939;
sincere,
candid,
frank,
open,
straightforward,
unreserved;
open hearted,
true hearted,
simple-hearted;
honest,
trustworthy;
undissembling
etc.
(dissemble)
etc.
544†;
guileless,
pure;
truth-loving;
unperjured†;
true blue,
as good as one's word;
unaffected,
unfeigned,
bona fide;
outspoken,
ingenuous
etc.
(artless)
703;
undisguised
etc.
(real)
494.
uncontrived.
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Roget 652:
clean,
cleanly;
pure;
immaculate;
spotless,
stainless,
taintless;
trig;
without a stain,
unstained,
unspotted,
unsoiled,
unsullied,
untainted,
uninfected;
sweet,
sweet as a nut.
neat,
spruce,
tidy,
trim,
gimp,
clean as a new penny,
like a cat in pattens;
cleaned
etc.
v.;
kempt†.
abstergent†,
cathartic,
cleansing,
purifying.
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2 pure
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers:
— Pure folly.
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Roget 494:
real,
actual
etc.
(existing)
1;
veritable,
true;
right,
correct;
certain
etc.
474;
substantially true,
categorically true,
definitively true
&c.;
true to the letter,
true as gospel;
unimpeachable;
veracious
etc.
543;
unreconfuted†,
unconfuted†;
unideal†,
unimagined;
realistic.
exact,
accurate,
definite,
precise,
well-defined,
just,
just so,
so;
strict,
severe;
close
etc.
(similar)
17;
literal;
rigid,
rigorous;
scrupulous
etc.
(conscientious)
939;
religiously exact,
punctual,
mathematical,
scientific;
faithful,
constant,
unerring;
curious,
particular,
nice,
delicate,
fine;
clean-cut,
clear-cut.
verified,
empirically true,
experimentally verified,
substantiated,
proven
(demonstrated)
478.
rigorously true,
unquestionably true.
true by definition.
genuine,
authentic,
legitimate;
orthodox
etc.
983.1;
official,
ex officio.
pure,
natural,
sound,
sterling;
unsophisticated,
unadulterated,
unvarnished,
unalloyed,
uncolored;
in its true colors;
pukka†.
well-grounded,
well founded;
solid,
substantial,
tangible,
valid;
undistorted,
undisguised;
unaffected,
unexaggerated,
unromantic,
unflattering.
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Roget 42:
simple,
uniform,
of a piece [Fr.],
homogeneous,
single,
pure,
sheer,
neat.
unmixed,
unmingled†,
unblended,
uncombined,
uncompounded;
elementary,
undecomposed;
unadulterated,
unsophisticated,
unalloyed,
untinged†,
unfortified,
pur et simple [Fr.];
incomplex†.
free from,
exempt from;
exclusive.
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3 pure
of color Being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black.
synonym: saturated.
4 pure
Free from discordant qualities.
Polish: czysty
5 pure
Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied.
6 pure
used of persons or behaviors Having no faults; sinless.
7 pure
In a state of sexual virginity:
— Pure and vestal modesty.
— Men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal.
synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous.
Roget 944:
virtuous,
good;
innocent
etc.
946;
meritorious,
deserving,
worthy,
desertful†,
correct;
dutiful,
duteous;
moral;
right,
righteous,
right-minded;
well-intentioned,
creditable,
laudable,
commendable,
praiseworthy;
above all praise,
beyond all praise;
excellent,
admirable;
sterling,
pure,
noble;
whole-souled†.
exemplary;
matchless,
peerless;
saintly,
saint-like;
heaven-born,
angelic,
seraphic,
godlike.
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Roget 960:
pure,
undefiled,
modest,
delicate,
decent,
decorous;
virginibus puerisque [Lat.];
simon-pure;
chaste,
continent,
virtuous,
honest,
Platonic.
virgin,
unsullied;
cherry [Coll.].
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Roget 946:
innocent,
not guilty;
unguilty†;
guiltless,
faultless,
sinless,
stainless,
bloodless,
spotless;
clear,
immaculate;
rectus in curia [Lat.];
unspotted,
unblemished,
unerring;
undefiled
etc.
939;
unhardened†,
Saturnian;
Arcadian
etc.
(artless)
703†.
inculpable,
unculpable†;
unblamed,
unblamable†;
blameless,
unfallen†,
inerrable†,
above suspicion;
irreproachable,
irreprovable†,
irreprehensible†;
unexceptionable,
unobjectionable,
unimpeachable;
salvable†;
venial
etc.
937.
harmless;
inoffensive,
innoxious†,
innocuous;
dove-like,
lamb-like;
pure,
harmless as doves;
innocent as a lamb,
innocent as the babe unborn;
more sinned against than sinning"
[Lear].
virtuous
etc.
944;
unreproved†,
unimpeached,
unreproached†.
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Roget 939:
upright;
honest,
honest as daylight;
veracious
etc.
543;
virtuous
etc.
944;
honorable;
fair,
right,
just,
equitable,
impartial,
evenhanded,
square;
fair and aboveboard,
open and aboveboard;
white [U.S.].
constant,
constant as the northern star;
faithful,
loyal,
staunch;
true,
true blue,
true to one's colors,
true to the core,
true as the needle to the pole;
marble-constant"
[Antony and Cleopatra];
true-hearted,
trusty,
trustworthy;
as good as one's word,
to be depended on,
incorruptible.
straightforward
etc.
(ingenuous)
703;
frank,
candid,
open-hearted.
conscientious,
tender-conscienced,
right-minded;
high-principled,
high-minded;
scrupulous,
religious,
strict;
nice,
punctilious,
correct,
punctual;
respectable,
reputable;
gentlemanlike†.
inviolable,
inviolate;
unviolated†,
unbroken,
unbetrayed;
unbought,
unbribed†.
innocent
etc.
946;
pure,
stainless;
unstained,
untarnished,
unsullied,
untainted,
unperjured†;
uncorrupt,
uncorrupted;
undefiled,
undepraved†,
undebauched†;
integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.]
[Horace];
justus et tenax propositi [Lat.]
[Horace].
chivalrous,
jealous of honor,
sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.];
high-spirited.
supramundane†,
unworldly,
other-worldly,
overscrupulous†.
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