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pure
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin p?rus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hl?tor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English sc?re and Old Norse sk?r), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English sc?r), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English sm?te; compare Old English m?re (“pure”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pj??/, /?pj??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pj??/, /?pj??/
- (cure-fir merger, rhotic) IPA(key): /?pj?/
- (cure-fir merger, non-rhotic) IPA(key): /?pj??/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -??(r), -??(?)
Adjective
pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- Free of foreign material or pollutants.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
- c. 1530, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, 1 Timothy, 5:22,
- Laye hondes sodely[suddenly] on no man nether be partaker of other mes[men's] synnes: kepe thy silfe pure.
- c. 1530, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, 1 Timothy, 5:22,
- Mere; that and that only.
- That idea is pure madness!
- (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
Synonyms
- (free of flaws): see Thesaurus:pure
- (free of foreign material): see Thesaurus:raw
- (free of immoral behavior): innocent
Antonyms
- (free of flaws): dirty, flawed, impure
- (free of foreign material): contaminated, impure
- (free of immoral behavior): corrupt, guilty, sinful
- (done for its own sake): applied
Derived terms
- pure finder
- as pure as the driven snow
Related terms
- purification
- purify
- purity
- puritan
- puritanism
- purist
- purism
Translations
Adverb
pure (not comparable)
- (Liverpudlian, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
- You’re pure busy.
- 1996, Trainspotting (film)
- I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
Translations
Verb
pure (third-person singular simple present pures, present participle puring, simple past and past participle pured)
- (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately
- Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.
Noun
pure (countable and uncountable, plural pures)
- One who, or that which, is pure.
- 1845, The Lancet, page 187:
- ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
- c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:
- Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]
- 1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 30:
- All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]
- 1845, The Lancet, page 187:
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pj??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /pj??/
Noun
pure (uncountable)
- Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)
- 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:
- […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.
- 2001, Wendy Lawton, The Tinker's Daughter, ch. 8:
- Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road. […]
- "What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
- "'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
- "Pure? What is pure?"
- "Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.
- 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, p. 28:
- […] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]
- 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:
Further reading
- pure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Peru, Pre-U, Prue, Pu'er, Rupe, pu'er, puer, re-up, reup
Danish
Etymology 1
From Latin p?re, the adverb of p?rus (“clean, pure”); or the definite form of pur (“pure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu?r?/, [?p?u???]
Adjective
pure
- complete
- (adverbial) completely
Inflection
Etymology 2
From French purée (“puree”).
Alternative forms
- puré
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyre/, [p?y??æ]
Noun
pure c (singular definite pureen, plural indefinite pureer)
- puree
Inflection
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu?r?/, [?p?u???]
Adjective
pure
- definite of pur
- plural of pur
Esperanto
Adverb
pure
- purely
Finnish
Verb
pure
- inflection of purra:
- indicative present connegative
- second-person singular imperative present/present connegative
Anagrams
- Peru, peru
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py?/
- Homophones: pur, purs, pures
- Rhymes: -y?
Adjective
pure
- feminine singular of pur
Anagrams
- peur
- puer
- repu
- rupe, rupé
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
pure
- inflection of pur:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pu.re/
- Rhymes: -ure
Etymology 1
Adjective
pure
- feminine plural of puro
Etymology 2
From Latin p?r?, the adverb of p?rus.
Adverb
pure
- too, also, as well
- Synonym: anche
- well, surely
- please, by all means
- if you like; if you want (etc.)
Conjunction
pure
- even though, even if, although
- nevertheless
References
Anagrams
- Perù
- prue
- rupe
Latin
Etymology 1
From p?rus (“clean; pure”) and -e (“-ly, -ily”).
Adverb
p?r? (comparative p?rius, superlative p?rissim?)
- clearly, brightly, cleanly
- correctly, faultlessly, perfectly, purely
- Loqui pure.
- To speak correctly.
- Loqui pure.
Synonyms
- (correctly): ?mend?t?
Etymology 2
Noun
p?re
- ablative singular of p?s
References
- pure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Anagrams
- puer, r?pe
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, pu?r, puir, puire, puyre
Etymology
From Old French pur, from Latin p?rus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piu?r/
Adjective
pure (comparative purer, superlative purest)
- pure, unadulterated, undiluted, untarnished
- entire, total, all
- perfect, wonderful, unflawed
- morally clean, pure, or upstanding
- chaste
- true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
- clear, obvious, simple
Descendants
- Scots: puir, pure
- English: pure
- ? Cornish: pur
References
- “p?r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural pureer, definite plural pureene)
- alternative spelling of puré
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??re?/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural purear, definite plural pureane)
- alternative spelling of puré
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²p??.r?/ (example of pronunciation)
Adjective
pure
- definite singular of pur
- plural of pur
Rapa Nui
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *pule.
Noun
pure
- cowrie
Swedish
Adjective
pure
- absolute definite natural masculine form of pur.
Anagrams
- Peru
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tidy
English
Etymology
From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), equivalent to tide (“time”) +? -y. Cognate with Dutch tijdig (“timely”), Middle Low German t?dich (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?di/
- Rhymes: -a?di
Adjective
tidy (comparative tidier, superlative tidiest)
- Arranged neatly and in order.
- Not messy; neat and controlled.
- (colloquial) Satisfactory; comfortable.
- (colloquial) Generous, considerable.
- (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
- 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
- if weather be fair and tidy
- 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
- (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
- Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
Synonyms
- (arranged neatly): neat, orderly, presentable, spick and span; see also Thesaurus:orderly or Thesaurus:clean
- (at the right time): opportune, seasonable; see also Thesaurus:timely
- (appropriate or suitable): apt, fit; see also Thesaurus:suitable
Antonyms
- (not messy): messy, untidy
Derived terms
- hair-tidy
Related terms
- tidily
- tidiness
Translations
Verb
tidy (third-person singular simple present tidies, present participle tidying, simple past and past participle tidied)
- To make tidy; to neaten.
Translations
Noun
tidy (plural tidies)
- A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
- A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
- (dated) A child's pinafore.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- The wren.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
Translations
Interjection
tidy
- (Wales) Expression of agreement or positive acknowledgement, usually in reply to a question; great, fine.
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