impure

About 1.59 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not pure

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

2. adjective Containing undesired intermixtures

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

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

   He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.

5. adjective Having side effects.

   an impure method

6. verb to defile; to pollute

Similar words

contaminated unpurified polluted dirty defiled adulterated dingy adulterate debased unclean

Often followed by

and air water or thoughts blood in by limestone

Word family

impurely impureness impurenesses