free of extraneous elements of any kind; pure air and water; pure gold; pure primary colors; the violin's pure and lovely song; pure tones; pure oxygen'

(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black

[ Syn: saturated ]

(used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; I felt pure and sweet as a new baby- Sylvia Plath; pure as the driven snow'

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; an arrant fool; a complete coward; a consummate fool; a double-dyed villain; gross negligence; a perfect idiot; pure folly; what a sodding mess; stark staring mad; a thoroughgoing villain; utter nonsense; the unadulterated truth

[ Syn: arrant , complete , consummate , double-dyed , everlasting , gross , perfect , sodding , stark , staring , thoroughgoing , utter , unadulterated ]

free from discordant qualities

concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; pure science'

in a state of sexual virginity; pure and vestal modesty; a spinster or virgin lady; men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal

[ Syn: vestal , virgin , virginal , virtuous ]