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Impure vs Unpristine - What's the difference?

impure | unpristine |

As adjectives the difference between impure and unpristine

is that impure is not pure while unpristine is not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.

As a verb impure

is (obsolete) to defile; to pollute.

impure

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not pure
    • The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.
  • Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed
  • Unchaste; lewd; unclean or obscene
    • He was thinking impure thoughts.
  • (Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse
  • * 2012 , Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery
    • “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, tainted

    Antonyms

    * pure

    Related terms

    * impuration * impurely * impureness * impurify * impurity

    Verb

    (impur)
  • (obsolete) to defile; to pollute

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    unpristine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 7, author=Andy Newman, title=Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The subject of all this breathlessness is a decidedly unpristine swath of Staten Island known as Arlington Marsh, a boggy green break in one of the city's most industrialized stretches of waterfront. }}