Origin: Latin
suffix -ure
Impure has 6 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Verb
Adjective
1
combined with extraneous elements
2
(used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
"impure thoughts"
3
having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws
"unclean meat"
"and the swine...is unclean to you"
5
Containing undesired intermixtures
Example Sentences
"impure thoughts"
adjective
"unclean meat"
adjective
"and the swine...is unclean to you"
adjective
Related Terms
Origin
The word comes from the Middle French impur, which was borrowed from the Latin impūrus. In its original form, it meant not pure or clean.