Dissipated vs Impure - What's the difference?
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(dissipate)
to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures
* James dissipated his savings with all of his addictions.
Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure
Not pure
Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed
Unchaste; lewd; unclean or obscene
(Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse
* 2012 , Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
(obsolete) to defile; to pollute
Dissipated is a related term of impure.
As verbs the difference between dissipated and impure
is that dissipated is (dissipate) while impure is (obsolete) to defile; to pollute.As adjectives the difference between dissipated and impure
is that dissipated is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures while impure is not pure.dissipated
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* dissolute * intemperateimpure
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(en adjective)- The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
- He was thinking impure thoughts.
- “No one would marry her if she was impure''', don't you see?” “'''Impure'''? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as '''impure .”