Antonyms for pure

Antonyms for (adj) pure

Main entry: pure

Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless

Usage: I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath; pure as the driven snow

Antonyms: impure

Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene


Antonyms: black

Definition: (board games) the darker pieces


Antonyms: black, blackness, inkiness

Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)


Antonyms: black

Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin


Antonyms: black

Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light


Main entry: pure

Definition: free of extraneous elements of any kind

Usage: pure air and water; pure gold; pure primary colors; the violin's pure and lovely song; pure tones; pure oxygen

Antonyms: impure

Definition: combined with extraneous elements


Antonyms: adopted, adoptive

Definition: acquired as your own by free choice


Antonyms: strange, foreign

Definition: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world


Antonyms: nonnative

Definition: not being or composed of aborigines


Antonyms: soil, grime, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty

Definition: make soiled, filthy, or dirty


Antonyms: soiled, dirty, unclean

Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime


Antonyms: dirty

Definition: (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency


Antonyms: contaminating, dirty

Definition: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination


Antonyms: unclean, impure

Definition: having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws


Antonyms: patterned

Definition: having patterns (especially colorful patterns)


Antonyms: fancy

Definition: not plain; decorative or ornamented


Antonyms: dark, darkness

Definition: absence of light or illumination


Antonyms: dark

Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black


Antonyms: dark

Definition: (used of color) having a dark hue


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: of comparatively great physical weight or density


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: unusually great in degree or quantity or number


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: of great intensity or power or force


Antonyms: heavy

Definition: of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment


Antonyms: bounce

Definition: come back after being refused


Antonyms: unclear

Definition: not clear to the mind


Antonyms: opaque

Definition: not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight


Antonyms: cloudy

Definition: full of or covered with clouds


Antonyms: harsh, coarse

Definition: of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles


Antonyms: stale

Definition: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age


Antonyms: preserved

Definition: prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use


Antonyms: salty

Definition: containing or filled with salt


Antonyms: contaminated

Definition: corrupted by contact or association


Main entry: saturated, pure

Definition: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black

Antonyms: unsaturated

Definition: (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted


Antonyms: mild

Definition: moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme


Main entry: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous

Definition: in a state of sexual virginity

Usage: pure and vestal modesty; a spinster or virgin lady; men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal

Antonyms: unchaste

Definition: not chaste


Main entry: pure

Definition: free from discordant qualities

Antonyms: unharmonious, inharmonious

Definition: not in harmony


Main entry: pure

Definition: concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied

Usage: pure science

Antonyms: empiric, empirical

Definition: derived from experiment and observation rather than theory


Antonyms: applied

Definition: concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles


Main entry: unadulterated, thoroughgoing, staring, stark, sodding, utter, complete, everlasting, perfect, arrant, pure, gross, consummate, double-dyed

Definition: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

Usage: 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; the unadulterated truth

Antonyms: mitigated

Definition: made less severe or intense


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