Synonyms and Antonyms of impure
1
containing foreign or lower-grade substances
- be careful, because impure motor oil can damage your car's engine
unclarified, unfiltered, unrefined
befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, corrupted, debased, defiled, dirtied, fouled, maculate (or maculated), soiled, spoiled, sullied
blended, commingled, incorporated, intermingled, intermixed, merged, mingled, mixed
coalesced, combined, compounded
cheapened, doctored
clarified, filtered, purified, refined, ultrarefined
neat, plain, straight
concentrated, strong
uncombined
pasteurized
sterile, sterilized
clean, immaculate, spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied
fine, pure, ultrapure, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncontaminated, uncut, undiluted, unmixed, unpolluted, untainted
2
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
- Victorian notions of what qualified as impure art now strike us as laughable
bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, indecent, lascivious, lewd, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-rated
broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive
barnyard, earthy, scatological
immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming
depraved, kinky, louche, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked
exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome
abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting
distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant
blamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensible
atrocious, infamous
abusive, scurrilous
hard-core, soft, soft-core
