Impure

a.	1.
	1.	Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
	2.	Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; - said of persons or things.
	3.	Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
	4.	(Script.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
	5.	(Language) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.
v. t.	1.	To defile; to pollute.

Adj.	1.	impure - combined with extraneous elements Antonyms: pure - free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"
	2.	impure - used of persons or behaviors; not morally pure; "impure thoughts" Antonyms: pure - used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
	3.	impure - ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 Synonyms: unclean

Adamic, Doric, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, adulterated, alloyed, backsliding, barbaric, barbarous, bawdy, belowstairs, besmirched, black, blemished, blue, cacophonous, carnal, clumsy, coarse, common, crude, damaged, defective, deficient, defiled, degenerate, dirty, dissolute, doggerel, dysphemistic, erring, erroneous, evil, fallen, fallible, faulty, feculent, filthy, fleshly, forbidden, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, found wanting, frail, fulsome, graceless, gross, grubby, harsh, immature, immodest, immoral, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infected, infelicitous, infirm, ithyphallic, lacking, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, maculate, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, nasty, native, nonkosher, not perfect, obscene, of easy virtue, off, offensive, outlandish, partial, patchy, peccable, polluted, pornographic, postlapsarian, prodigal, promiscuous, prurient, putrescent, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, ribald, ritually unclean, rotten, rude, run-of-mine, salacious, scarlet, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, short, sinful, sketchy, smirched, smoking-room, smutty, soiled, soily, squalid, sullied, sultry, tasteless, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, uncourtly, uncouth, undeveloped, undignified, uneuphonious, uneven, unfelicitous, unfinished, ungodly, ungood, ungraceful, ungraded, unhallowed, unholy, unperfected, unpolished, unprintable, unpure, unrefined, unrepeatable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unseemly, unsorted, unswept, unthorough, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwashed, unwiped, vile, virtueless, vulgar, wanting, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked

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