单词 | pure |
释义 | pure (pyr) adj. pur·er, pur·est 1. a. Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen. b. Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements: pure water. c. Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous: a pure style of piano playing. 2. Complete; utter: pure folly. 3. a. Having no moral failing or guilt: "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby" (Sylvia Plath). b. Chaste; virgin. 4. Of unmixed blood or ancestry. 5. Genetics Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous: a pure line. 6. Music Free from discordant qualities: pure tones. 7. Linguistics Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal: a pure vowel. 8. Theoretical; not applied: pure science. 9. Philosophy Free of empirical elements: pure reason. [Middle English pur, from Old French, from Latin pūrus; see peuə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] purely adv. pureness n. |
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