Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen.
Free from adulterants or impurities: pure chocolate.
Free of dirt, defilement, or pollution: "A memory without blot or contamination must be . . . an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment" (Charlotte Brontë).
Free of foreign elements.
Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous: a pure literary style.
Complete; utter: pure folly.
Having no faults; sinless: "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby" (Sylvia Plath).
Chaste; virgin.
Of unmixed blood or ancestry.
Genetics Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous: a pure line.
Music Free from discordant qualities: pure tones.
Linguistics Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal: a pure vowel.
Theoretical: pure science.
Philosophy Free of empirical elements: pure reason.
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