impureim‧pure /ɪmˈpjʊə $ -ˈpjʊr/ adjective - impure drugs
- New laws restrict the sale of impure chemicals.
- The last sample was impure and quite useless for manufacturing purposes.
- Brethren, a branch that believed in keeping itself pure of false doctrine by avoiding association with the impure.
- Even more important is the statement that nothing can be done to aid the unjust and impure after death.
- Nothing impure could touch his lasting image of Regine.
- She considers thin distinction between the pure and the impure an essential part of social order.
- This latter case is analogous to the melting of a highly impure crystal.
- Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such irredeemably subjective and impure elements.
not pure► impure a substance that is impure is not pure and contains other substances: · New laws restrict the sale of impure chemicals.· The last sample was impure and quite useless for manufacturing purposes.
► impurity something in a substance which should not be in it and which makes it not pure: · Lime is added to the liquid metal to remove all the impurities .· There were impurities in the aluminum.
nounpurificationpuristpurity ≠ impuritypurifieradjectivepure ≠ impureverbpurifyadverbpurely