impureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ʊə(r)

形容詞

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

1. Not pure
   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.

   2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
   3. Unchaste; obscene (not according to または not abiding by some system of sexual morality)

      He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.

      • 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery

        “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”

同意語

• imperfect, tainted

反意語

• pure

関連する語

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

動詞

impure (三人称単数 現在形 impures, 現在分詞 impuring, 過去形および過去分詞形 impured)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

参照

• impure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

アナグラム

• rumpie, umpire

Latin

副詞

impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

形容詞

impūre

1. vocative masculine singular of impūrus

参照

• impure in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impure in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette