Definition of purest in English

Wiktionary

purest (Adjective)
Having the greatest purity.

Part of speech

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purest, adjective, superlative of pure.

WordNet

Adjective pure, purer, purest
pure - free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
		impure (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts"
		clean free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
		processed subjected to a special process or treatment; "prepared ergot"; "processed cheeses are easy to spread"
		pureness, purity the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
		axenic (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms; "an axenic culture"
		fresh, clean improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
		unclouded, clear, clean, light not made opaque or cloudy by sediment; "the wine was unclouded"
		fine characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
		native belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native language"
		unmingled, unmixed, sheer, plain lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
		pristine immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief"
		sublimate made pure
		unadulterated not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"
		unalloyed free from admixture; "unalloyed metal"; "unalloyed pleasure"
		unpolluted, uncontaminated free from admixture with noxious elements; clean; "unpolluted streams"; "a contaminated lake"
pure - in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"
		vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous
		chaste morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"
pure - (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
		impure (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene; "impure thoughts"
		chaste morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"
		morality concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
		undefiled, immaculate completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"
pure - concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
pure - free from discordant qualities
pure - (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
		saturated
		unsaturated (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted; "an unsaturated red"
pure - without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
		arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated

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Wiktionary

pure (Adverb)
To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
pure (Adjective)
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
pure (Adjective)
Free of foreign material or pollutants.
pure (Adjective)
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
pure (Adjective)
Of a branch of science, done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
pure (Adjective)
Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
pure (Adjective)
Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

pure (superl.)
Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
pure (superl.)
Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
pure (superl.)
Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
pure (superl.)
Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
pure (superl.)
Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

pure
Free from contaminants or extraneous elements.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

pure
pūr, adj. (comp. Pur′er; superl. Pur′est) clean: unsoiled: unmixed: not adulterated: real: free from guilt or defilement: chaste: modest: mere: that and that only: complete: non-empirical, involving an exercise of mind alone, without admixture of the results of experience.—n. purity.—adv. quite: (obs.) entirely.—v.t. to cleanse, refine.—adv. Pure′ly, without blemish: wholly, entirely: (dial.) wonderfully, very much.—n. Pure′ness.—Pure mathematics (see Mathematics); Pure reason, reason alone, without any mixture of sensibility; Pure science, the principles of any science considered in themselves and their relation to each other, and not in their application to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, as pure mathematics, pure logic, &c. [Fr. pur—L. purus, pure.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

pure
The branch which investigates and demonstrates the properties of magnitude, figure, or quantity, absolutely and generally considered, without restriction to any species in particular; such as arithmetic and geometry.