purity
US: /ˈpjʊɹəti/, /ˈpjʊɹɪti/
UK: /pjˈʊɹɪti/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
purity /'pjuəriti/- danh từ
- sự sạch, sự trong sạch, sự tinh khiết, sự nguyên chất
- sự thanh khiết, sự thuần khiết; sự trong trắng
- sự trong sáng (ngôn ngữ...)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun[U] the state or quality of being pure: The purity of the water is tested regularly. + moral / spiritual purity
Antonym: IMPURITY
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 pureness, faultlessness, correctness, flawlessness, perfection, spotlessness, cleanness, cleanliness, clarity; healthfulness, wholesomeness, salubrity; innocuousness, harmlessness:
The purity of the drinking-water has been affected by the nearby chemical plant
2 chastity, chasteness, virginity, virtuousness, virtue, morality, propriety, honesty, integrity, rectitude, properness, innocence, guilelessness, decency, decorousness, modesty, blamelessness, sinlessness:
We never had any reason to doubt the purity of their character.
Collocation
ADJ.
absolute
the absolute purity of her love
| great, high
high-purity silver
| ideological | racial | moral
VERB + PURITY
maintain, preserve
He struggled to preserve his ideological purity.
PHRASES
purity of form/sound/style
the building's unadorned purity of style
Concise dictionary
'pjʊrətɪ /'pjʊə-noun
+being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
+the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
+a woman's virtue or chastity
