pura

adj.

1 pure (color, lengua, sustancia), free, unmingled.

2 pure, clear (cielo), clean, neat, genuine, net, fine.

3 pure (moralmente), chaste, modest.

4 pure, guiltless, innocent, just.

5 pure, incorrupt, not vitiated, exempt from imperfections.

6 only, just. (Mexico)

7 identical. (Andes & Caribbean & Mexico)

f.

cigar, a little roll of tobacco for smoking, to distinguish it from cigarro and cigarrillo, a small roll of paper filled with fine-chopped tobacco.

De puro aburrimiento out of sheer boredom

Por pura casualidad by sheer chance

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f., (m. - puro)

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SF

- por las puras

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pura

feminine

(CS)

la pura (fam); the honest truth (colloq)

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puro,-a
I adjetivo
1 (un producto, color, sensación, etc) pure
al aire puro, outside
2 (uso enfático) sheer, mere: fue un puro trámite, it was a mere formality
es la pura verdad, it's the absolute truth
3 (una persona) chaste, pure
II sustantivo masculino
1 (cigarro) cigar
2 (reprimenda, castigo) trouble: si llegas tarde, te va a caer un puro, if you are late, you're going to get into trouble
'pura' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cepa
- comedia
- fachada
- lana
- puro
- raza
- semental
- sugestión
- verdad
- casualidad
- chatarra
- el
- rutina
English:
courtesy
- fact
- naked
- pedigree
- plain
- pureblood
- purebred
- purely
- simple
- thoroughbred
- gospel
- idle
- motion
- poseur

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pura Fam

♦ nf

CSur

la pura [la verdad] the honest truth

♦ por las puras loc adv

Andes just for the sake of it, for no reason