Usually means: Not clean, mixed, or adulterated.
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  1. impure: Merriam-Webster
  2. impure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impure, impure: Wordnik
  7. impure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impure: Wiktionary
  9. impure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. impure: Dictionary.com
  13. impure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Impure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. impure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. impure: Rhymezone
  17. impure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. impure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. impure: FreeDictionary.org
  20. impure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. impure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. impure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impure: Legal dictionary

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  1. impure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. impure: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impure)

▸ adjective:  Not pure
▸ adjective:  Containing undesired intermixtures
▸ adjective:  Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
▸ adjective:  Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

Similar:
contaminated, adulterated, defiled, polluted, debased, dingy, maculate, muddied, unclean, dirty, more...

Opposite:
pure, clean, pristine, unadulterated

Types:
impure gold, impure water, impure air, impure blood, impure thoughts, impure mind, more...

Phrases:
impure flutter, pure impure, make impure, Critique of Impure Reason, impure thoughts, more...

Adjectives:
pure, other, more, such, least, certain, single, whole, profane, best, slightest

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Similar:
contaminated, adulterated, defiled, polluted, debased, dingy, maculate, muddied, unclean, dirty, more...

Opposite:
pure, clean, pristine, unadulterated

Types:
impure gold, impure water, impure air, impure blood, impure thoughts, impure mind, more...

Phrases:
impure flutter, pure impure, make impure, Critique of Impure Reason, impure thoughts, makes impure, impure corundum, religious impure, made dirty or impure, not made impure, more...

Adjectives:
pure, other, more, such, least, certain, single, whole, profane, best, slightest

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     olive,     mustard,     taupe, more...



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