Pure vs. Indecent

Pureadjective

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

Indecentadjective

offensive to good taste

Pureadjective

Free of foreign material or pollutants.

Indecentadjective

not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

Pureadjective

Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

Indecentadjective

Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.

Pureadjective

Mere; that and that only.

‘That idea is pure madness!’;

Indecentadjective

not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society;

‘was buried with indecent haste’; ‘indecorous behavior’; ‘language unbecoming to a lady’; ‘unseemly to use profanity’; ‘moved to curb their untoward ribaldry’;

Pureadjective

(of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

Indecentadjective

offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters;

‘an earthy but not indecent story’; ‘an indecent gesture’;

Pureadjective

(phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Indecentadjective

offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance;

‘a bathing suit considered indecent by local standards’;

Pureadjective

(of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

Pureadverb

(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

‘You’re pure busy.’;

Purenoun

Feces, especially dog feces gathered in pre-20th-century England for use in the tanning of leather.

Purenoun

alternative form of puer

Pureverb

(golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately

‘Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.’;

Pureadjective

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

‘The pure fetters on his shins great.’; ‘A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.’;

Pureadjective

Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; - applied to persons.

‘Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.’;

Pureadjective

Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; - applied to things and actions.

‘Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.’;

Pureadjective

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

‘Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.’;

Pureadjective

Of a single, simple sound or tone; - said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Pureadjective

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’;

Pureadjective

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

‘an arrant fool’; ‘a complete coward’; ‘a consummate fool’; ‘a double-dyed villain’; ‘gross negligence’; ‘a perfect idiot’; ‘pure folly’; ‘what a sodding mess’; ‘stark staring mad’; ‘a thoroughgoing villain’; ‘utter nonsense’;

Pureadjective

concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied;

‘pure science’;

Pureadjective

(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black

Pureadjective

free from discordant qualities

Pureadjective

used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless;

‘I felt pure and sweet as a new baby’; ‘pure as the driven snow’;

Pureadjective

in a state of sexual virginity;

‘pure and vestal modesty’; ‘a spinster or virgin lady’; ‘men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal’;

Pureadjective

not mixed;

‘pure oxygen’;