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unpristine

unpristine adjective: not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.

Adjective

unpristine (comparative more unpristine, superlative most unpristine)

  1. Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
    • The subject of all this breathlessness is a decidedly unpristine swath of Staten Island known as Arlington Marsh, a boggy green break in one of the city's most industrialized stretches of waterfront.2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times

Forms of unpristine

comparativemore unpristine
superlativemost unpristine

Origin of unpristine

From un- + pristine.

Questions about unpristine

What does unpristine mean?
Unpristine means not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
What part of speech is unpristine?
Unpristine is an adjective.

Words near unpristine in the dictionary

  1. unprisonable
  2. unprisoned
  3. unprisoning
  4. unprisons
  5. unprissy
  6. unpristine
  7. unprivate
  8. unprivated
  9. unprivates
  10. unprivating
  11. unprivatize

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