different between dishonest vs impure

English

Etymology

From Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Synchronically, dis- +? honest.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s?n?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??s?n?st/

Adjective

dishonest (comparative more dishonest, superlative most dishonest)

1. Not honest.
2. Interfering with honesty.
3. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
   • c. 1560,Thomas North, Archontorologion

     speake 'dishonest word

4. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

   • Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.

Antonyms

• honest

Related terms

• dishonesty

Translations

Further reading

• dishonest at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• hedonists, stonished

English

Etymology

From Middle French impur, from Latin impurus

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Adjective

impure (comparative more impure, superlative most impure)

1. Not pure
   1. Containing undesired intermixtures

      The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out.

   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)

      He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school.

      • 2012, Frederick Ramsay, The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery

        “No one would marry her if she was impure, don't you see?” “Impure? Surely if a woman is forcibly deprived of her virginity, she can't be thought of as impure.”

Synonyms

• imperfect, tainted

Antonyms

• pure

Related terms

• impuration
• impurely
• impureness
• impurify
• impurity

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.
• impure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• rumpie, umpire

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.py?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Adjective

impure

1. feminine singular of impur

Italian

Adjective

impure f pl

1. feminine plural of impuro

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

imp?r? (comparative imp?rius, superlative imp?rissim?)

1. basely, shamefully, infamously
2. impurely

Etymology 2

Adjective

imp?re

1. vocative masculine singular of imp?rus

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