Impure vs Contaminate - What's the difference?
impure | contaminate |
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
To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
* Shakespeare
* Goldsmith
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As verbs the difference between impure and contaminate
is that impure is (obsolete) to defile; to pollute while contaminate is to introduce impurities or foreign matter to.As an adjective impure
is not pure.impure
English
Adjective
(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 .”
Synonyms
* imperfect, taintedAntonyms
* pureVerb
(impur)References
* *Anagrams
* ----contaminate
English
Verb
(contaminat)- Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
- This water is contaminated . It isn't safe to drink.
- Shall we now / Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
- I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .