UNALLOYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unalloyed mean? 

• UNALLOYED (adjective)
  The adjective UNALLOYED has 1 sense:

1. free from admixture

  Familiarity information: UNALLOYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNALLOYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from admixture

Context example:

unalloyed pleasure

Similar:

pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)

 Context examples 

But my happiness was not unalloyed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was not unalloyed bliss, taking her to the lecture.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was not three months ago since, wild with joyful expectation, she had there run backwards and forwards some ten times a day, with an heart light, gay, and independent; looking forward to pleasures untasted and unalloyed, and free from the apprehension of evil as from the knowledge of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By not one of the circle was he listened to with such unbroken, unalloyed enjoyment as by his wife, who was really extremely happy to see him, and whose feelings were so warmed by his sudden arrival as to place her nearer agitation than she had been for the last twenty years.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)