pure

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈpjʊər/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/pjʊr/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(pyŏŏr)

Inflections of 'pure' (adj):
purer
adj comparative
purest
adj superlative
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Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
pure adj (not mixed)puro/a adj
 Pure gold is too soft to be made into jewellery and has to be mixed with other metals.
 El oro puro es muy blando para hacer joyas, y tiene que mezclarse con otros metales.
pure adj (clean)puro/a adj
 Alan drank pure water from the mountain stream.
 Alan bebió agua pura del arroyo de montaña.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
pure adj (morally) (moral)puro/a adj
 John is a good man with a pure soul.
 Juan es un buen hombre con una corazón puro.
pure adj (virgin, new)puro/a adj
  virgen adj mf
 Olivia looked out of the window at the pure snow, as yet untouched by human feet.
 Olivia miró por la ventana la nieve pura, todavía sin haber sido tocada por pies humanos.
pure adj (theoretical, not applied)puro/a adj
  teórico/a adj
 Yasmin is studying pure mathematics at Oxford.
 Yasmin está estudiando matemática pura en Oxford.
pure adj (intensifier)puro/a adj
  total adj mf
 It was pure luck that I saw him; if I'd walked along that street one minute later, I'd never have known he was there. Nick lit a cigarette after discovering a gas leak? That's pure stupidity!
 Fue pura suerte haberlo visto, si hubiera caminado por ahí un minuto después, nunca lo hubiese visto.
 ¿Nick prendió un cigarrillo después de descubrir una fuga de gas? ¡Qué estupidez total!
pure adj (of unmixed lineage)puro/a adj
  pura sangre loc adj
 My neighbour owns a pure Arab mare.
 Mi vecino es dueño de una yegua árabe pura.
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Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
pure and simple adj informal (sheer, utter)puro y simple loc adj
 Those Wall Street bankers are crooks, pure and simple.
 That is nothing more than extortion, pure and simple.
 Los banqueros de Wall Street son ladrones, puro y simple.
pure endowment n (type of life insurance policy)seguro de capital diferido nm
pure evil n (extreme malice or wickedness)pura maldad adj + nf
 Killing those puppies was nothing more than pure evil!
 Matar a esos pobres cachorritos fue pura maldad.
  perfidia nf
 Matar a esos pobres cachorritos fue perfidia.
pure line (genetics)línea pura loc nom f
pure poetry,
sheer poetry
n
figurative ([sth] poetic, beautiful)poesía pura loc nom f
pure-minded adj (morally pure thoughts)de mente pura loc adj
pureblood,
pure-blood,
pureblooded,
pure-blooded
adj
(of unmixed breed)purasangre adj inv
pureblood,
pure-blood,
pureblooded,
pure-blooded
adj
(of unmixed ancestry)purasangre adj inv
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Collocations: this [idea, concept] is pure gold!, [gold, uranium] in its pure form, [kindness, generosity] in its purest form, more...

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