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発音

• IPA: /ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

形容詞

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

1. Not pure

   Synonyms: imperfect, tainted

   Antonym: pure

   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      Synonyms: contaminated, polluted

      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

      Synonyms: profane, unhallowed; see also Thesaurus:unholy

   3. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)

      Synonyms: indecent, libidinous, wanton; see also Thesaurus:obscene, Thesaurus:randy

      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.”

   4. (programming) Having side effects.

      an impure method

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動詞

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

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

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “impure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• rumpie, umpire, Umpire

語源 1

副詞

impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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.