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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.
     ακάθαρτος

From 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 pollute

From 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.
     epäpuhdas

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  impure
     Engelska a.
     oren, även okysk

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/
  ملوّث

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)// 
  нечи́ст, с [[при́мес]]
  not pure

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ 
  nečistý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/
  unrein 
           Note: Fremdstoffe enthaltend
   see: impure skin, blemished skin, impure metal, impure minerals
  
           Note: containing foreign matter

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/
  unrein  [phil.]  [relig.]
     Synonym: unclean
  
   see: unclean thoughts, impure thoughts, unclean food
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)// 
  epäpuhdas
  not pure

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/ 
  1. अनिर्मल
        "The gold found in the earthen core is impure."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/
  bludan, grješan, nečist, pokvaren

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/
  1. nem tiszta
  2. tisztátlan
  3. tisztátalan
  4. kevert

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)// 
  不潔
  not pure

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  impure /ɪmˈpjʊə/ 
    nieczysty

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  impure //ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)// 
  oren
  not pure

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  impure /ɪmpjˈʊə/
  1. kirli, pis, murdar
  2. karışık, katışık, mahlut
  3. iffetsiz
  4. saf olmayan (lisan)

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˌɪmˈpjʊɹ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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,
     wicked
  
  

From 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

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