Impure

Adjective

 * 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.
 * The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
 * 1) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
 * 2) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.

Synonyms

 * imperfect, tainted

Antonyms

 * pure

Related terms

 * impuration
 * impurely
 * impureness
 * impurify
 * impurity

Verb

 * 1)   To defile; to pollute.

Adverbs for Impure
definitely; positively; terribly; unfortunately; lewdly; indelicately; grossly; crassly; brazenly; indecently; foully; immodestly; obscenely; coarsely; lamentably; deplorably; meretriciously.

Thesaurus
Adamic, Doric, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, adulterated, alloyed, backsliding, barbaric, barbarous, bawdy, belowstairs, besmirched, black, blemished, blue, cacophonous, carnal, clumsy, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupted, crude, damaged, debased, defective, deficient, defiled, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dissolute, doggerel, dysphemistic, erring, erroneous, evil, fallen, fallible, faulty, feculent, filthy, fleshly, forbidden, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, found wanting, frail, fulsome, graceless, gross, grubby, harsh, immature, immodest, immoral, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infected, infelicitous, infirm, ithyphallic, lacking, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, maculate, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, nasty, native, nonkosher, not perfect, obscene, of easy virtue, off, offensive, outlandish, partial, patchy, peccable, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, prurient, putrescent, putrid, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, rude, run-of-mine, salacious, scarlet, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, short, sinful, sketchy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted, tasteless, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, uncourtly, uncouth, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven, unfelicitous, unfinished, ungodly, ungood, ungraceful, ungraded, unhallowed, unholy, unperfected, unpolished, unprintable, unpure, unrefined, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unseemly, unsorted, unsound, unswept, unthorough, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, virtueless, vitiated, vulgar, wanting, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked

Etymology
From impurus:

Adjective

 * Chinese: 不純的, 不纯的
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: unrein


 * Hungarian: szennyezett
 * Interlingua: impur
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 불결한
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * umpire

Adjective
impure