Pure vs. Purist — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pure and Purist
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Pure
Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed
Pure oxygen.
Purist
One who practices or urges strict correctness, especially in the use of words.
Pure
Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements
Pure water.
Purist
Of or pertaining to purism.
Pure
Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous
A pure style of piano playing.
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Purist
An advocate of purism.
Pure
Complete; utter
Pure folly.
Purist
One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist.
Pure
Having no moral failing or guilt
"I felt pure and sweet as a new baby" (Sylvia Plath).
Purist
One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.
Pure
Chaste; virgin.
Purist
Someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)
Pure
Of unmixed blood or ancestry.
Pure
(Genetics) Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous
A pure line.
Pure
(Music) Free from discordant qualities
Pure tones.
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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