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Is impure a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word impure is a Scrabble US word. The word impure is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is impure a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word impure is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Yes. The word impure is a Words With Friends word. The word impure is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

IMPURE,UMPIRE,

5-letter words (3 found)

PRIME,PUMIE,UMPIE,

4-letter words (22 found)

EMIR,IURE,MERI,MIRE,MUIR,MURE,PERI,PERM,PIER,PIUM,PREM,PRIM,PUER,PUIR,PURE,PURI,RIEM,RIME,RIMU,RIPE,RUME,RUMP,

3-letter words (23 found)

EMU,ERM,IMP,IRE,MEU,MIR,PER,PIE,PIR,PIU,PRE,PUR,REI,REM,REP,RIM,RIP,RUE,RUM,UME,UMP,URE,URP,

2-letter words (11 found)

EM,ER,ME,MI,MU,PE,PI,RE,UM,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 62 words from impure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of impure

impure

Etymology

From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Adjective

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

  1. Not pure
    1. Containing undesired intermixtures
    2. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
    3. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)

Synonyms

  • imperfect, tainted

Antonyms

  • pure

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

impure (third-person singular simple present impures, present participle impuring, simple past and past participle impured)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

References

  • “impure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “impure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • rumpie, umpire

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pyʁ/
  • Rhymes: -yʁ

Adjective

impure

  1. feminine singular of impur

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈpu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: im‧pù‧re

Adjective

impure

  1. feminine plural of impuro

Latin

Pronunciation

  • impūrē: (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈpuː.reː/, [ɪmˈpuːreː]
  • impūrē: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpu.re/, [imˈpuːre]
  • impūre: (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈpuː.re/, [ɪmˈpuːrɛ]
  • impūre: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpu.re/, [imˈpuːre]

Etymology 1

Adverb

impūrē (comparative impūrius, superlative impūrissimē)

  1. basely, shamefully, infamously
  2. impurely

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

impūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of impūrus

References

  • “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “impure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • impure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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