Usually means: Entirely, without mixture or adulteration.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. purely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purely: Merriam-Webster
  3. purely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. purely: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purely: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purely, purely: Wordnik
  7. purely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. purely: Wiktionary
  9. purely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. purely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. purely: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Purely, purely: Dictionary.com
  13. purely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Purely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. purely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. purely: Rhymezone
  17. purely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. purely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. purely: FreeDictionary.org
  20. purely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. purely: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purely: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. purely: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purely: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purely: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purely: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purely: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  (now US regional) Wholly; really, completely.
▸ adverb:  Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.
▸ adverb:  Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.
▸ adverb:  (now rare) Without physical adulterants; refinedly, with no admixture.
▸ adjective:  (predicative, dialectal) Well, in good health.

Similar:
strictly, solely, primarily, Soley, pure, mainly, entirely, largely, merely, exclusively, more...

Opposite:
impurely, mixedly, partly, contaminatedly, adulteratedly

Phrases:
purely imaginary, purely functional, purely functional language, purely and simply, purely imaginary number, more...

Colors:
    white,     ivory,     pearl,     cream,     linen, more...



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Similar:
strictly, solely, primarily, Soley, pure, mainly, entirely, largely, merely, exclusively, more...

Opposite:
impurely, mixedly, partly, contaminatedly, adulteratedly

Phrases:
purely imaginary, purely functional, purely functional language, purely and simply, purely imaginary number, Purely functional programming, Purely functional data structure, more...

Colors:
    white,     ivory,     pearl,     cream,     linen, more...



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