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Pure vs. Indecent — What's the Difference?

Pure vs. Indecent — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pure and Indecent

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Pure

Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed
Pure oxygen.

Indecent

Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; lewd or vulgar
Found the movie to be indecent.

Pure

Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements
Pure water.

Indecent

Not appropriate or becoming; unseemly
Bought up distressed properties with indecent enthusiasm.

Pure

Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous
A pure style of piano playing.
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Indecent

To good taste.

Pure

Complete; utter
Pure folly.

Indecent

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

Pure

Having no moral failing or guilt
"I felt pure and sweet as a new baby" (Sylvia Plath).

Indecent

(criminal law) Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.

Pure

Chaste; virgin.

Indecent

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

Pure

Of unmixed blood or ancestry.

Indecent

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

Pure

(Genetics) Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous
A pure line.

Indecent

Offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters;
An earthy but not indecent story
An indecent gesture

Pure

(Music) Free from discordant qualities
Pure tones.

Indecent

Offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance;
A bathing suit considered indecent by local standards

Pure

(Linguistics) Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal
A pure vowel.

Pure

Theoretical; not applied
Pure science.

Pure

(Philosophy) Free of empirical elements
Pure reason.

Pure

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

Pure

Free of foreign material or pollutants.

Pure

Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

Pure

Mere; that and that only.
That idea is pure madness!

Pure

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

Pure

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

Pure

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

Pure

A lot of.

Pure

To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re pure busy.

Pure

(golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.

Pure

To cleanse; to refine.

Pure

One who, or that which, is pure.

Pure

Alternative form of puer

Pure

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.

Pure

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.

Pure

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.

Pure

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.

Pure

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

Pure

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

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

Pure

Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied;
Pure science

Pure

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

Pure

Free from discordant qualities

Pure

Used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless;
I felt pure and sweet as a new baby
Pure as the driven snow

Pure

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

Pure

Not mixed;
Pure oxygen

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