Word Meanings - IMPURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water

Additional info about word: IMPURE

Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPURE)

• Abominable
• Abhorrent
• foul
• accursed
• detestable
• hateful
• horrible
• loathsome
• odious
• offensive
• execrable
• nauseous
• impure
• Adulterated
• Impure
• ingenuine
• spurious
• concocted
• mixed
• falsified
• deteriorated
• garbled
• vitiated
• Carnal
• Fleshly
• sensual
• selfindulgent
• licentious
• animal
• coarse
• base
• worldly
• libidinous
• secular
• Filthy
• Dirty
• nasty
• dingy
• unclean
• squalid
• Gross
• Entire
• vulgar
• vicious
• bloated
• bulk
• indelicate
• outrageous
• unseemly
• shameful

Related words: (words related to IMPURE)

• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• CARNALIST
  A sensualist. Burton.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
  Grossness of mind.
• ABOMINABLENESS
  The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• ABOMINABLE
  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time ,
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.