1. pure

free of extraneous elements of any kind

Example Sentences:
'pure air and water'
'pure gold'
'pure primary colors'
'the violin's pure and lovely song'
'pure tones'
'pure oxygen'

• axenic
• clean
• fresh
• clean
• clear
• light
• unclouded
• fine
• native
• plain
• sheer
• unmingled
• unmixed
• pristine
• sublimate
• unadulterated
• unalloyed
• uncontaminated
• unpolluted
• virginal

2. arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

Example Sentences:
'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'

• arrant
• complete
• consummate
• double-dyed
• everlasting
• gross
• perfect
• sodding
• staring
• stark
• thoroughgoing
• unadulterated
• utter

3. pure, saturated

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

• saturated

• intense
• vivid

4. pure

free from discordant qualities

5. pure

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

Example Sentences:
'pure science'

6. pure

(used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless

Example Sentences:
'I felt pure and sweet as a new baby'
'pure as the driven snow'

• immaculate
• undefiled
• white

7. pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous

in a state of sexual virginity

Example Sentences:
'pure and vestal modesty'
'a spinster or virgin lady'
'men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal'

• vestal
• virgin
• virginal
• virtuous