Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

impure

/ɪmˈpjʊə(ɹ)/ adjective, verb

Forms impures impuring impured

  1. adjective Containing undesired intermixtures “The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.”
  2. adjective Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
  3. adjective Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality) “He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.”
  4. adjective (programming) Having side effects. “an impure method”
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute

Synonyms

imperfect tainted contaminated polluted profane unhallowed common impious mishallowed unholy indecent libidinous wanton adult bawdy blue cheeky dirty filthy gross unclean

Antonyms

pure raw

Etymology

From Middle French impur, from Latin impūrus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective 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. adjective Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; --said of persons or things.
  3. verb To defile; to pollute. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Etymology [L. impurus; pref. im- not + purus pure: cf. F. impur. See Pure.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “impure”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “impure” (best matches first).

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