Pursued

Definition

pure /pjƱǝ(r)/ adj ( -r /'pjƱǝrǝ(r)/ ; -st /'pjƱǝrÇst/) ၁။ (က) စစ္ေသာ။ pure gold/ silk/ wool ❍ made from 100% pure cotton ❍ water of the purest blue ❍ pure bliss/ joy/ pleasure. (ခ) သန္႔ေသာ။ pure water ❍ The air is so pure in these mountains. (ဂ) (မ်ဳိး႐ိုး) စစ္ေသာ။ ကျပားမဟုတ္ေသာ။ The cat is a pure Siamese ၂။ သက္သက္။ စစ္စစ္။ တကယ့္။ They met by pure accident/ chance/ coincidence. ❍ pure folly/ extravagance/ nonsense ❍ do sth out of pure kindness/ malice/mischief ❍ Reports that he may resign are pure speculation (ie probably not true). ၃။ ျဖဴစင္ေသာ (ေမတၱာ)။ ႐ိုးသားေသာ။ အျပစ္ကင္းေသာ။ စင္ၾကယ္ေသာ။ ေျဖာင့္စင္းေသာ။ pure thoughts ❍ His motives were pure. ❍ (rhet) pure in body and mind/ pure in heart. ၄။ (အသံ)ပီသေသာ။ ၾကည္ေသာ။ a pure note/ voice. ၅။ ( usu approv ) ရွင္းေသာ။ the clean, pure lines of classical architecture. ၆။ သေဘာတရား သက္သက္ ဦးတည္ေသာ။ (လက္ေတြ႕အသံုးခ်မႈပိုင္း ထည့္မစဥ္းစားေသာ)။ pure mathematics/ science/ research. Compare APPLIED See also PURIFY, PURITY ❏ pure and simple [ IDM ] …တာကလြဲလို႔ အျခားမရိွ။ သက္သက္။ It's laziness, pure and simple. ❍ The reason for the change is lack of money, pure and simple. ❏ pure-bred adj မ်ဳိးသန္႔ေသာ၊ ေသြးမေႏွာေသာ (တိရ စၧာန္)။ a pure-bred Alsatian dog. See also THOROUGHBRED ❏ purely adv သက္သက္။ Their meeting was purely accidental/ coincidental. ❍ He bought the house purely as an investment.

Examples

1. Pure gold/alcohol
2. A scream of pure terror
3. A smile of pure happiness
4. [pure chance/coincidence/luck] : Perhaps it was pure chance that the other woman happened to be there.
5. The flowers were a pure white.
6. The pure sound of children laughing
7. Pure mathematics
8. You could separate it from its political message and just look at it as pure poetry.
9. He cannot claim to have led an absolutely pure life.
10. It is hard to be humble
11. and nobody is pure.