meaning of impure
1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
2. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
3. Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
4. Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
5. Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.
6. To defile; to pollute.
7. ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine. . . is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
Related Words
impure | impurely | impureness |
