impure

English

Etymology

From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Adjective

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most 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

Derived terms

• impure name
• impure s
• pure-impure

 

Related terms

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

 

Translations

not pure

• Armenian: պիղծ (hy) (piġc)

  Old Armenian: պիղծ (piłc)

• Asturian: impuru
• Belarusian: нячы́сты (njačýsty)
• Bulgarian: нечи́ст (bg) (nečíst), с при́мес (s prímes)
• Catalan: impur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不純／不纯 (bù chún)

• Czech: nečistý
• Dutch: onzuiver (nl)
• Esperanto: malpura
• Finnish: epäpuhdas (fi)
• French: impur (fr) m
• Galician: impuro
• German: unrein (de)
• Hungarian: szennyezett (hu)
• Interlingua: impur
• Italian: impuro (it) m
• Japanese: 不潔な (ja) (ふけつな, fuketsu na)
• Korean: 불결하다 (ko) (bulgyeolhada)
• Latin: impūrus
• Maori: whaipara, paruparu
• Old English: unsȳfre
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} ناپاز (nâpâz)
• Polish: nieczysty (pl)
• Portuguese: impuro (pt)
• Russian: нечи́стый (ru) (nečístyj), с при́месью (s prímesʹju)
• Sanskrit: अशुद्ध (sa) (aśuddha)
• Spanish: impuro (es)
• Swedish: oren (sv)
• Tagalog: ditagnas
• Ukrainian: нечи́стий (nečýstyj)

Verb

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

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

References

• “impure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “impure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• rumpie, umpire

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pyʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -yʁ

Adjective

impure

1. feminine singular of impur

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈpu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: im‧pù‧re

Adjective

impure

1. feminine plural of impuro

Latin

Pronunciation

• impūrē: (Classical) IPA^(key): /imˈpuː.reː/, [ɪmˈpuːreː]
• impūrē: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈpu.re/, [imˈpuːre]
• impūre: (Classical) IPA^(key): /imˈpuː.re/, [ɪmˈpuːrɛ]
• impūre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈpu.re/, [imˈpuːre]

Etymology 1

Adverb

impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

impūre

1. vocative masculine singular of impūrus

References

• “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.