The Clue
Less adulterated (5 letter answer)
The Answer
PURER
Tags
Notes
The answer PURER is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1000 puzzles.
Related Clues
Closer to perfection
Freer from defects
Less contaminated
Less corrupted
Less diluted
Less polluted
Less sinful
More refined
More virtuous
Relatively white
Having more karats
Distilled vis-à-vis tap
Definition
PURE as an adjective:
1. free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"
2. (arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated) = without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
3. concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science"
4. (saturated, pure) = (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
5. free from discordant qualities
6. (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
7. (pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous) = in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"