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
Definition: acquired as your own by free choice
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
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
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
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
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