purer

Adjective

pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)

1. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
   • Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...

   Synonyms:

   pristine, untouched, virgin

   Antonyms:

   dirty, flawed, impure, imperfect, tainted

2. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
   • A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […]...

   Synonyms:

   crude, natural, unrefined, raw, coarse, pristine, unalloyed, unmixed, unprocessed, untouched

   Antonyms:

   contaminated, impure, adulterated, common, corrupted, mixed, polluted, sophisticated, tainted

3. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
   • Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Timothy v:[22], folio cclxxviij, recto

   Synonyms:

   innocent, chaste, blameless, clean, clean-handed, clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, clear, dovelike, guiltless

   Antonyms:

   corrupt, guilty, sinful, at fault, blameworthy, censurable, culpable, nocent, reprehensible, to blame

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

   Synonyms:

   alone, bare, only, simple, very

5. Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
   • The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892

   Antonyms:

   applied

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

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