pure
free of extraneous elements of any kind
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,322 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,837 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- free of extraneous elements of any kind pure air and waterpure gold
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers also: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross an arrant foola complete coward
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black also: saturated
- free from discordant qualities
- concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied pure science
- (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless I felt pure and sweet as a new babypure as the driven snow
pure in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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That he was down there now, while she breathed pure air.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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It is the very voice of the oaten pipe itself, thin, clear, and pure.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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She was combing her silver hair, and every hair that fell on the ground rang out like pure metal.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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Or meek-eyed Mennonist his bearded chin Leaned o'er the gate; or Ranter, pure within, Aired his perfection in a world of sin.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1