IMPURITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does impurity mean?
• IMPURITY (noun)
The noun IMPURITY has 2 senses:
1. worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
2. the condition of being impure
Familiarity information: IMPURITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• IMPURITY (noun)
Meaning:
Worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
dross; impurity
Context example:
there were impurities in the water
Hypernyms ("impurity" is a kind of...):
waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)
Meaning:
The condition of being impure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
impureness; impurity
Hypernyms ("impurity" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impurity"):
adulteration; debasement (being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating)
admixture; alloy (the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something)
contamination; taint (the state of being contaminated)
dirtiness (the state of containing dirty impurities)
putridity (the state of being putrid)
pollution (undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities)
Antonym:
purity (being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material)
