PURER
What does "PURER" mean?
More free from contamination, mixture, or moral fault than something else.
Meanings
- The comparative form of 'pure': more unmixed, clean, or untainted. Spring water from the mountain is purer than what comes from the tap.
Word origin
The comparative of 'pure' (from Latin 'purus', 'clean, unmixed', via Old French 'pur'), with the standard English comparative suffix '-er'.
Remember it
PURER is just PURE with an -ER, the comparative tag that means 'more so'.
A little poem
Each filter swore the next would clear the stream-
yet purer water still reflects the same dream.
couplet
Wordplay
- The chemist kept distilling, chasing something purer. His coffee, meanwhile, got weaker and weaker.
What it teaches
The chase for ever-purer can strip away the very things that gave a thing its taste.
Quick facts
What does PURER mean?
More free from contamination, mixture, or moral fault than something else.
Is PURER a valid word?
Yes — PURER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PURER?
PURER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PURER come from?
The comparative of 'pure' (from Latin 'purus', 'clean, unmixed', via Old French 'pur'), with the standard English comparative suffix '-er'.
What can PURER teach us?
The chase for ever-purer can strip away the very things that gave a thing its taste.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.