释义 |
pure /pūr/ adjective- Clean
- Unsoiled
- Unmixed
- Not adulterated
- Free from guilt or defilement
- Chaste
- Free from bad taste, bad grammar, bad manners, insincerity, barbarism, etc
- Modest
- Mere
- That and that only
- Utter, sheer
- Free (from any stated characteristics)
- (of a study) confined to that which belongs directly to it
- Non-empirical, involving an exercise of the mind alone, without involving the results of experimentation
- Excellent, fine (obsolete)
- Homozygous, breeding true (biology)
- Unconditional (law)
- Free from ritual uncleanness
noun- Purity
- Dog's faeces or any similar substance used by tanners (also puer; historical)
adverb- Purely
- Utterly, completely (informal)
- Without mixture
transitive verb- To cleanse or refine
- To treat with pure (also puer)
ORIGIN: Fr pur, from L pūrus pure pureˈly adverb - Chastely
- Unmixedly
- Unconditionally
- Wholly, entirely
- Merely
- Wonderfully, very much (dialect)
pureˈness noun purism noun see separate entry purity noun see separate entry pureˈ-blood, pure-bloodˈed or pureˈ-bred adjective Of unmixed race pure culture noun (biology) A culture containing a pure stock of one species of micro-organism pure mathematics singular noun Mathematics treated without application to observed facts of nature or to practical life pure reason noun - Reason alone, without involvement of emotion, etc
- In Kant, the power of grasping a priori forms of knowledge (philosophy)
pure science noun Science considered apart from practical applications |