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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Impure \Im*pure"\, a. [L. impurus; pref. im- not + purus pure: cf. F. impur. See Pure.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things. [1913 Webster] 3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. ``Impure desires.'' --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 4. (Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. [1913 Webster] 5. (Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style. [1913 Webster]From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Impure \Im*pure"\, v. t. To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Impure \Im*pure"\, a. [L. impurus; pref. im- not + purus pure: cf. F. impur. See Pure.] 1. 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. 2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things. 3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. ``Impure desires.'' --Cowper. 4. (Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. 5. (Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Impure \Im*pure"\, v. t. To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
impure adj 1: combined with extraneous elements [ant: pure] 2: used of persons or behaviors; not morally pure; "impure thoughts" [ant: pure] 3: ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn: unclean] [ant: clean]From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
impure Αγγλικά a. ακάθαρτοςFrom English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
impure French a. (adj form of fr impur f s) Italian a. (adj form of it impuro f p)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
impure a. 1 Not pure 2 # Containing undesired intermixtures 3 # unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin 4 # unchaste; obscene (gloss: not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality) vb. (lb en transitive obsolete) to defile; to polluteFrom English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
impure French a. (adj form of fr impur f s) Italian a. (adj form of it impuro f p)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
impure French a. (adj form of fr impur f s) Italian a. (adj form of it impuro f p)From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
impure Englanti a. epäpuhdasFrom Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
impure Engelska a. oren, även okyskFrom English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ ملوّثFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]нечи́ст, с [[при́мес]] not pure
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]nečistý
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ unreinFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]Note: Fremdstoffe enthaltend see: impure skin, blemished skin, impure metal, impure minerals Note: containing foreign matter
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ unreinFrom English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ][phil.] [relig.] Synonym: unclean see: unclean thoughts, impure thoughts, unclean food
impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)//From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]epäpuhdas not pure
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]1. अनिर्मल "The gold found in the earthen core is impure."
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ bludan, grješan, nečist, pokvarenFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ 1. nem tiszta 2. tisztátlan 3. tisztátalan 4. kevertFrom English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]
impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)//From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]不潔 not pure
impure /ɪmˈpjʊə/From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]nieczysty
impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)//From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]oren not pure
impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ 1. kirli, pis, murdar 2. karışık, katışık, mahlut 3. iffetsiz 4. saf olmayan (lisan)From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˌɪmˈpjʊɹ/
190 Moby Thesaurus words for "impure": Adamic, Doric, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, adulterated, alloyed, backsliding, barbaric, barbarous, bawdy, belowstairs, besmirched, black, blemished, blue, cacophonous, carnal, clumsy, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupted, crude, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dissolute, doggerel, dysphemistic, erring, erroneous, evil, fallen, fallible, faulty, feculent, filthy, fleshly, forbidden, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, found wanting, frail, fulsome, graceless, gross, grubby, harsh, immature, immodest, immoral, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infected, infelicitous, infirm, ithyphallic, lacking, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, maculate, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, nasty, native, nonkosher, not perfect, obscene, of easy virtue, off, offensive, outlandish, partial, patchy, peccable, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, prurient, putrescent, putrid, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, rude, run-of-mine, salacious, scarlet, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, short, sinful, sketchy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted, tasteless, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, uncourtly, uncouth, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven, unfelicitous, unfinished, ungodly, ungood, ungraceful, ungraded, unhallowed, unholy, unperfected, unpolished, unprintable, unpure, unrefined, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unseemly, unsorted, unsound, unswept, unthorough, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, virtueless, vitiated, vulgar, wanting, wanton, wayward, weak, wickedFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 不纯的,肮脏的;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 不纯的,肮脏的,掺杂的,混合的