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Definition: Pure And Simple |
Pure And SimpleAdjective1. Of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it's the literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Pure And SimpleSynonym: literal (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pure And Simple |
| English words defined with "pure and simple": chaste. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Evil! Pure and simple from the eighth dimension! (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; writing credit: Earl Mac Rauch) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pure and Simple (1922) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
taste pure and simple | 77 |
pure and simple | 16 |
pure and simple soap | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pure and simple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ç´"屬 (outright, sheer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | απλά και καθαÏά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urepay anday implesay ในขั้นต้น (initially). (various references) bal gibi (as sweet as honey, jolly well, mellifluous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-n-p-p-r-s-u" | |
-3 letters: madrilenes, mislearned, pimpernels, resupplied, superplane. | |
-4 letters: dampeners, demilunes, empurpled, empurples, endpapers, epidermal, impaneled, impearled, laundries, madrilene, misleader, misleared, muraenids, nursemaid, pauperism, pedaliers, pedlaries, penalised, perilunes, pimpernel, pleasured, plumerias, plumipeds, plumpened, reapplied, reapplies, relumined, relumines, resampled, sandpiper, semilunar, slippered, superlain, supermale, supermind, underlaps, underlies, underlips, unpleased, uplanders. | |
-5 letters: airspeed, aldermen, alieners, alumines, amenders, aneurism. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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