impure

1. 1.

   combined with extraneous elements

   Antonymspure

   Similartechnical-gradeadulteratealloyedbastardizedcontaminateddirtyunpurified
2. 2.

   (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene

   “impure thoughts”

   Antonymspure

   Similardefiled
3. 3.

   having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws

   “unclean meat”

   “and the swine...is unclean to you”

   Synonymsunclean

   Similarnonkosheruntouchable

   religion

Other forms of impure

comparative

impurer·

superlative

impurest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impure

What does impure mean?

impure means "combined with extraneous elements". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impure?

impure has 2 syllables: im-pure. The stress falls on "pure". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpjʊɹ/.

What is another word for impure?

Close synonyms include unclean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of impure?

The recorded antonyms are pure, pure.

Is impure a common word?

impure is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with impure?

1 word rhymes with impure. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.