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pure-blooded

adjective
variants: or pure-blood

Synonyms and Antonyms of pure-blooded

of unmixed ancestry
  • both dogs are pure-blooded Chesapeake Bay retrievers
Synonyms of pure-blooded

blooded, full-blood, full-blooded, pedigreed (or pedigree), purebred, thoroughbred
Words Related to pure-blooded

well-bred

inbred
Near Antonyms of pure-blooded

crossbred, crossed, half-blood (or half-blooded), half-bred, hybridized, interbred, outcrossed
Antonyms of pure-blooded

hybrid, mixed, mongrel

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