impure

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Adjective

impure

1. Not pure
   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.

   2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
   3. Unchaste; obscene not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality

      He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.

      • 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery

        “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”

Synonyms

• imperfect, tainted

Antonyms

• pure

Related terms

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

Translations

• French: impur
• German: unrein
• Italian: impuro
• Portuguese: impuro
• Russian: нечи́стый
• Spanish: impuro

Verb

impure (impures, present participle impuring; past and past participle impured)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

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