Impure

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  • adjective. Not pure or clean; contaminated.
  • adjective. Not purified by religious rite; unclean.
  • adjective. Immoral or sinful.
  • adjective. Mixed with another, usually inferior substance; adulterated.
  • adjective. Being a composite of more than one color or mixed with black or white.
  • adjective. Deriving from more than one source, style, or convention; eclectic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make impure; defile.
  • To grow impure.
  • Not pure physically; mixed or impregnated with extraneous, and especially with offensive, matter; foul; feculent; tainted: as, impure water or air; impure salt or magnesia.
  • Not simple or unmixed; mixed or combined with something else: said of immaterial things.
  • Not pure morally; unchaste; obscene; lewd: as, impure language or ideas; impure actions.
  • Of a contaminating nature; causing defilement, physical or moral; unclean; abominable.
  • Not in conformity with a standard of correctness, simplicity, etc.: as, an impure style of writing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To defile; to pollute.
  • adjective. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated
  • adjective. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
  • adjective. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene.
  • adjective. Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
  • adjective. Not accurate; not idiomatic
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
  • adjective. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
  • adjective. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
  • verb. (obsolete) to defile; to pollute
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. combined with extraneous elements
  • adjective. (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
  • adjective. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
  • Word Usage
    "Her claim that the term impure (teme’ah) is obfuscated because of its biblical connotation of transmission of impurity and the rabbinic usage of unavailability for sexual purposes needs further clarification."
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