What are the opposite words for pure?
The word "pure" signifies something that is uncontaminated, unspoiled, or untouched. Antonyms to this word can include terms like dirty, tainted, corrupted, or impure. These are the opposites of the notion of cleanliness, honesty, and innocence that are all related to purity. The concept of impurity can range from physical elements like pollutants, toxicity, or germs, to more abstract or figurative ideas like dishonesty, deceit, or depravity. The very opposite of anything pure is generally the idea of blemish, imperfection, or impurity, which can have negative associations in a variety of contexts such as health, ethics, spirituality, or aesthetics.
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- hybrid
- abandoned
- perverted
- fast
- vulgar
- dirty
- imperfect
- impure
- loose
- dishonest
- unhealthy
- sickening
- obscene
- fetid
- adulterated
- adulterous
- base
- carnal
- corrupt
- crude
- debauched
- decadent
- defiled
- degenerate
- dissolute
- flawed
- heterogeneous
- profane
- rancid
- salacious
- shameless
- coarse
- criminal
- depraved
- dingy
- dissipated
- erotic
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- illicit
- immoral
- indecent
- indelicate
- infamous
- lewd
- lustful
- monstrous
- muddy
- nasty
- naughty
- noxious
- pornographic
- promiscuous
- reprobate
- rotten
- scurrilous
- sexy
- shameful
- spoiled
- squalid
- suggestive
- unfaithful
- venal
- vicious
- all
- debased or dirty
- vulgar, low
- erotic, sensual
- not fine, rude
- lawless, felonious
- vulgar, unpolished in manner
- self-indulgent
- poisoned
- violated, corrupted
- corrupt, self-indulgent
- corrupted, violated
- corrupt, deteriorated
- corrupt, immoral
- soiled, tacky
- soiled, unclean
- disgusting, offensive
- lacking restraint, indulgent
- lascivious
- immoral, promiscuous
- foul, rancid
- dirty, polluted
- dirty, disheveled
- dirty and unkempt
- assorted, miscellaneous
- lecherous
- not legal; forbidden
- evil, degenerate
- sacrilegious
- obscene, vulgar
- vulgar, indecent
- dark and cloudy
- bad, misbehaved
- deadly, injurious
- indecent, offensive, immoral
- immoral, evil
- immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion
- unmixed, genuine
- virginal, chaste
- rotten, strong-smelling
- decayed, decaying
- foul-mouthed, vulgar
- atrocious; disreputable
- disgusting, awful
- poor, run-down
- very bad in effect on well-being
- bribable, corruptible
- corrupt, wrong
- offensive, horrible
- rude, offensive
- immoral, dishonest
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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hybrid
- crossbreed,
- half-caste,
- hybrid,
- miscegenation,
- mule,
- mules,
- crossbreeds,
- Cross-breed,
- cross breed,
- cross breeds,
- cross-breeds,
- half breed,
- half caste,
- half castes,
- half-blood,
- half-bloods,
- half-castes,
- halfblood,
- halfbloods,
- halfcaste,
- halfcastes,
- in crosses,
- in-crosses,
- incross,
- incrosses,
- miscegenations,
- out crosses,
- out-crosses,
- outcross,
- outcrosses.
-
abandoned
- cast aside,
- cast away,
- incontinent,
- shameless,
- wicked,
- given up,
- sidelined,
- on the rocks,
- dis carded,
- dis-carded,
- in continent,
- in corrigible,
- in-continent,
- in-corrigible,
- left cold,
- left in cold,
- left in the cold,
- left the cold,
- more dumped,
- more eighty sixed,
- more eighty-sixed,
- more eliminated,
- more pigeon holed,
- more pigeon-holed,
- more relinquished,
- more side tracked,
- more side-tracked,
- more sidelined,
- more sidetracked,
- most eighty sixed,
- most eighty-sixed,
- most eightysixed,
- most eliminated,
- most outcast,
- most pigeon holed,
- most relinquished,
- most shunned,
- most side tracked,
- most side-tracked,
- most sidelined,
- most sidetracked,
- out cast,
- out-cast,
- passed up,
- pigeon-holed,
- side tracked,
- side-tracked,
- un controlled,
- un occupied,
- un principled,
- un restrained,
- un-controlled,
- un-occupied,
- un-principled,
- un-restrained.
- perverted
- fast
- vulgar
-
dirty
- begrimed,
- disarrayed,
- dishabille,
- grimy,
- mung,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- slatternly,
- slovenly,
- straggly,
- unhygienic,
- unswept,
- Dreggy,
- Dungy,
- undusted,
- scuzzy,
- stragglier,
- straggliest,
- slimier,
- scummier,
- cruddy,
- be draggled,
- be grimed,
- be-draggled,
- be-grimed,
- below belt,
- cruddier,
- cruddiest,
- dis arrayed,
- dis-arrayed,
- dreggier,
- dreggiest,
- dungier,
- dungiest,
- more begrimed,
- more disarrayed,
- more dishabille,
- more fouled,
- more pigpen,
- more slatternly,
- more smudged,
- more spattered,
- more stained,
- more undusted,
- more unhygienic,
- more unlaundered,
- more unswept,
- most begrimed,
- most disarrayed,
- most dishabille,
- most fouled,
- most pigpen,
- most slatternly,
- most smudged,
- most spattered,
- most stained,
- most undusted,
- most unhygienic,
- most unlaundered,
- most unswept,
- munger,
- mungest,
- scummiest,
- scurvier,
- scurviest,
- scuzzier,
- scuzziest,
- un cleanliest,
- un cleanly,
- un dusted,
- un hygienic,
- un kempt,
- un kempter,
- un kemptest,
- un laundered,
- un sightlier,
- un sightliest,
- un sightly,
- un swept,
- un tidier,
- un tidiest,
- un tidy,
- un washed,
- un-cleanlier,
- un-cleanliest,
- un-cleanly,
- un-dusted,
- un-hygienic,
- un-kempt,
- un-kempter,
- un-kemptest,
- un-laundered,
- un-sanitary,
- un-sightlier,
- un-sightliest,
- un-sightly,
- un-swept,
- un-tidier,
- un-tidiest,
- un-tidy,
- un-truthful,
- un-washed,
- unlaundered,
- untidiest.
-
imperfect
- incomplete,
- Dudder,
- bottom of barrel,
- bottom-of-barrel,
- dis figured,
- dis-figured,
- duddest,
- few bugs,
- in complete,
- in-complete,
- junkest,
- more bottom of barrel,
- more bottom-of-barrel,
- more disfigured,
- more garbage,
- more marred,
- most bottom of barrel,
- most bottom-of-barrel,
- most disfigured,
- most garbage,
- most lemon,
- most marred,
- twobit,
- un developed,
- un finished,
- un sound,
- un sounder,
- un-developed,
- un-finished,
- un-sound,
- un-sounder,
- un-soundest.
- impure
- loose
- dishonest
- unhealthy
- sickening
- obscene
- fetid
-
adulterated
- de graded,
- de valued,
- de-graded,
- de-valued,
- dis solved,
- dis-solved,
- more attenuated,
- more blended,
- more contaminated,
- more depreciated,
- more devalued,
- more dissolved,
- more polluted,
- more vitiated,
- most attenuated,
- most blended,
- most depreciated,
- most devalued,
- most polluted,
- most thinned,
- most vitiated.
-
adulterous
- extracurricular,
- moonlighting,
- extra curricular,
- extra-curricular,
- more cheating,
- more double crossing,
- more double-crossing,
- more doublecrossing,
- more extracurricular,
- more moonlighting,
- more two timing,
- more two-timing,
- more twotiming,
- most cheating,
- most double crossing,
- most double-crossing,
- most doublecrossing,
- most extracurricular,
- most moonlighting,
- most two timing,
- most two-timing,
- most twotiming,
- two faced,
- twofaced,
- un chaste,
- un chaster,
- un chastest,
- un-chaste,
- un-chaster,
- un-chastest.
- base
- carnal
-
corrupt
- bribable,
- putrescent,
- shady,
- snide,
- Double dealing,
- profiteering,
- dis honored,
- dis-honored,
- double-dealing,
- doubledealing,
- gone dogs,
- gone the dogs,
- gone to dogs,
- gone to the dogs,
- in-constant,
- more abased,
- more bribable,
- more exploiting,
- more infected,
- more profiteering,
- more putrescent,
- more suborned,
- most abased,
- most bribable,
- most contaminated,
- most exploiting,
- most infected,
- most profiteering,
- most putrescent,
- most suborned,
- on take,
- on the take,
- racket up,
- un ethical,
- un faithful,
- un scrupulous,
- un trustworthy,
- un-ethical,
- un-faithful,
- un-scrupulous,
- un-trustworthy,
- under handed,
- under-handed,
- wide open.
-
crude
- cloddish,
- ill-bred,
- loud-mouthed,
- illbred,
- grodier,
- grody,
- ill bred,
- in sensible,
- in-sensible,
- loud mouthed,
- more barnyard,
- more ill bred,
- more ill-bred,
- more illbred,
- more loud mouthed,
- more loud-mouthed,
- most cloddish,
- most ill bred,
- most ill-bred,
- most illbred,
- un enlightened,
- un gainlier,
- un gainliest,
- un gainly,
- un skillful,
- un-enlightened,
- un-gainly,
- un-skillful.
- debauched
- decadent
-
defiled
- spoilt,
- Trashed,
- be smirched,
- be-smirched,
- co oked,
- co-oked,
- de filed,
- de-filed,
- ex posed,
- ex-posed,
- more besmirched,
- more cooked,
- more desecrated,
- more dishonored,
- more profaned,
- more ravished,
- more spoilt,
- more trashed,
- most besmirched,
- most cooked,
- most desecrated,
- most dishonored,
- most profaned,
- most ravished,
- most spoilt,
- most trashed,
- mucked up,
- un clean,
- un cleaner,
- un cleanest,
- un-clean,
- un-cleaner,
- un-cleanest.
- degenerate
- dissolute
- flawed
-
heterogeneous
- independent,
- motley,
- multiplex,
- Unallied,
- dis similar,
- dis-similar,
- in congruous,
- in dependent,
- in harmonious,
- in-congruous,
- in-dependent,
- in-harmonious,
- more amalgamate,
- more contrasted,
- more mingled,
- more mongrel,
- more mosaic,
- more multiplex,
- more unallied,
- most amalgamate,
- most contrasted,
- most mingled,
- most mongrel,
- most mosaic,
- most multiplex,
- most unallied,
- un allied,
- un liker,
- un likest,
- un related,
- un-allied,
- un-liker,
- un-likest,
- un-related.
-
profane
- profanatory,
- sacrilegious,
- unconsecrated,
- unsanctified,
- in fidel,
- in-fidel,
- more infidel,
- more irreverential,
- more profanatory,
- more unconsecrated,
- more unsanctified,
- most infidel,
- most irreverential,
- most profanatory,
- most unconsecrated,
- most unsanctified,
- pro fane,
- pro-fane,
- un consecrated,
- un hallowed,
- un-consecrated,
- un-hallowed,
- un-sanctified.
-
rancid
- carious,
- curdled,
- Nidorous,
- Olid,
- de composing,
- de-composing,
- evil smelling,
- evil-smelling,
- evilsmelling,
- more curdled,
- more decomposing,
- more evil smelling,
- more evil-smelling,
- more evilsmelling,
- more olid,
- more putrefactive,
- more putrefied,
- more soured,
- more turned,
- most carious,
- most evil smelling,
- most evil-smelling,
- most evilsmelling,
- most nidorous,
- most olid,
- most putrefactive,
- most soured,
- most turned,
- whiffier,
- whiffiest,
- whiffy.
- salacious
- shameless
-
coarse
- brutish,
- foul-mouthed,
- lowbred,
- Incult,
- foul mouthed,
- in cult,
- in culter,
- in elegant,
- in-culter,
- in-cultest,
- in-elegant,
- inculter,
- incultest,
- lowdown dirty,
- more brutish,
- more foul mouthed,
- more foul-mouthed,
- more lowbred,
- more roughneck,
- most brutish,
- most foul mouthed,
- most foul-mouthed,
- most lowbred,
- most roughneck,
- most vulgarian,
- off color,
- offcolor,
- un civil,
- un couth,
- un cultivated,
- un cultured,
- un refined,
- un-civil,
- un-couth,
- un-cultivated,
- un-cultured,
- un-refined.
- criminal
- depraved
- dingy
- dissipated
- erotic
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- illicit
- immoral
- indecent
- indelicate
- infamous
- lewd
-
lustful
- aphrodisiacal,
- ruttish,
- Lickerish,
- licentiou libidinous,
- licentiou-libidinous,
- licentioulibidinous,
- more aphrodisiacal,
- more itching,
- more licentiou libidinous,
- more licentiou-libidinous,
- more licentioulibidinous,
- more lickerish,
- more prurientaphrodisiac,
- more ruttish,
- most aphrodisiacal,
- most itching,
- most licentiou libidinous,
- most licentiou-libidinous,
- most licentioulibidinous,
- most lickerish,
- most prurientaphrodisiac,
- most ruttish,
- prurientaphrodisiac.
- monstrous
-
muddy
- bespattered,
- boggy,
- Caked,
- GUNKY,
- boggiest,
- boggier,
- be mired,
- be spattered,
- be-mired,
- be-spattered,
- gunkier,
- gunkiest,
- in distinct,
- in-distinct,
- more bemired,
- more bespattered,
- more blurred,
- more caked,
- more subfuse,
- most bemired,
- most caked,
- most subfuse,
- sub fuse,
- sub-fuse,
- subfuse,
- un clear,
- un clearest,
- un-clear,
- un-clearest.
- nasty
- naughty
- noxious
- pornographic
- promiscuous
- reprobate
-
rotten
- purulent,
- putrified,
- badsmelling,
- bad smelling,
- bad-smelling,
- de composed,
- de-composed,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrating,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrating,
- more bad smelling,
- more bad-smelling,
- more badsmelling,
- more corroded,
- more crumbled,
- more disintegrating,
- more festering,
- more moldering,
- more perished,
- more purulent,
- more pustular,
- more putrified,
- more smelling,
- most bad smelling,
- most bad-smelling,
- most badsmelling,
- most corroded,
- most crumbled,
- most decomposed,
- most disintegrated,
- most disintegrating,
- most festering,
- most moldering,
- most perished,
- most pustular,
- most putrified,
- most smelling.
- scurrilous
- sexy
- shameful
- spoiled
- squalid
- suggestive
- unfaithful
- venal
- vicious
- all
- debased or dirty
-
vulgar, low
- base.
- erotic, sensual
- not fine, rude
- lawless, felonious
- vulgar, unpolished in manner
- self-indulgent
- poisoned
- violated, corrupted
- corrupt, self-indulgent
- corrupted, violated
- corrupt, deteriorated
- corrupt, immoral
- soiled, tacky
- soiled, unclean
- disgusting, offensive
- lacking restraint, indulgent
- lascivious
-
immoral, promiscuous
- fast.
- foul, rancid
- dirty, polluted
- dirty, disheveled
- dirty and unkempt
- assorted, miscellaneous
- lecherous
- not legal; forbidden
- evil, degenerate
- sacrilegious
- obscene, vulgar
-
vulgar, indecent
- lewd.
- dark and cloudy
- bad, misbehaved
- deadly, injurious
- indecent, offensive, immoral
- immoral, evil
- immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion
-
unmixed, genuine
- abnormal,
- applied,
- cloudy,
- complex,
- complicated,
- contaminated,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- dark,
- decorated,
- difficult,
- dirty,
- dishonest,
- embellished,
- fake,
- false,
- immodest,
- impure,
- indecent,
- indefinite,
- intricate,
- invalid,
- mixed,
- obscene,
- obscure,
- ornate,
- polluted,
- tainted,
- uncertain,
- unchaste,
- unclear,
- uncommon,
- unintelligible,
- unreal,
- vague,
- vulgar,
- ungenuine.
- virginal, chaste
- rotten, strong-smelling
- decayed, decaying
- foul-mouthed, vulgar
- atrocious; disreputable
- disgusting, awful
- poor, run-down
- very bad in effect on well-being
- bribable, corruptible
- corrupt, wrong
-
offensive, horrible
- vile.
- rude, offensive
- immoral, dishonest
-
Other relevant words
- maculate,
- bastardized,
- mitigated,
- muddied,
- amalgamated,
- big,
- blemished,
- blended,
- blunt,
- clumsy,
- coalesced,
- combined,
- compounded,
- condemned,
- conjoined,
- corrupted,
- damned,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- equivocal,
- erring,
- fallen,
- foul,
- fouled,
- fused,
- great,
- gross,
- heavy,
- huge,
- immense,
- immodest,
- immoral,
- improper,
- incorporated,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- inharmonious,
- intermingled,
- joined,
- large,
- linked,
- lost,
- merged,
- mitigated,
- mixed,
- peccant,
- qualified,
- questionable,
- restricted,
- rude,
- sinning,
- spoiled,
- spotted,
- stout,
- tacky,
- tarnished,
- tasteless,
- thick,
- uncertain,
- unharmonious,
- united,
- unseemly,
- Lickerish,
- Virtueless,
- Commingled,
- intermixed,
- watered-down.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
wreathes
- Antonyms:
- uncover, unwrap, stay.
