pure

UK /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/ US /ˈpjʊɹ/
adj 5verb 2noun 2adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.

2

Free of foreign material or pollutants.

A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.

As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme.

3

Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.

4

Mere; that and that only.

That idea is pure madness!

5

Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

adv

1

to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

You’re pure busy.

I just get pure shy with the interview cats.

verb

1

To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.

Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.

2

To cleanse; to refine.

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