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immaculate

[ ih-mak-yuh-lit ]

adjective

  1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean:

    immaculate linen.

  2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled.

    Synonyms: unexceptionable, unimpeachable, blameless, irreproachable

  3. free from fault or flaw; free from errors:

    an immaculate text.

  4. Biology. having no spots or colored marks; unicolor.


immaculate

/ ɪˈmækjʊlɪt /

adjective

  1. completely clean; extremely tidy

    his clothes were immaculate

  2. completely flawless, etc

    an immaculate rendering of the symphony

  3. morally pure; free from sin or corruption
  4. biology of only one colour, with no spots or markings


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Derived Forms

  • imˈmaculacy, noun
  • imˈmaculately, adverb

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Other Words From

  • im·mac·u·la·cy [ih-, mak, -y, uh, -l, uh, -see], im·macu·late·ness noun
  • im·mac·u·late·ly adverb
  • unim·macu·late adjective
  • unim·macu·late·ly adverb
  • unim·macu·late·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of immaculate1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin immaculātus “unspotted”; equivalent to im- 2 + maculate

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Word History and Origins

Origin of immaculate1

C15: from Latin immaculātus, from im- (not) + macula blemish

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Example Sentences

While a mouse pad doesn’t look as sleek as an immaculate flat surface, it is the better choice.

His longevity as an elite runner is perhaps all the more remarkable when you consider that Abdirahman has never had the immaculate running form of someone like his longtime friend and training partner Bernard Lagat.

TeaYoun Kim-Kassor’s huge, immaculate charcoal drawing symbolizes South and North Korea as frayed ropes almost connected by a single strand.

Ditch the tent and cowboy camp at one of these immaculate, wooden shelters surrounded by a fifth-generation Christmas tree farm.

A big cheer came for Kyle Finnegan throwing an immaculate inning — nine pitches, nine strikes — in the sixth.

Near the door thousands of stilettos slide and shuffle on black ice, somehow always keeping their immaculate balance.

There was a patch of congealed blood behind his head: “Except for the blood…the dead man looked immaculate.”

Why is he dialing down the humor and dialing up the moralizing, throwing his immaculate comedic balance out of whack?

The clinic, a large house surrounded by single-family homes, is immaculate, smelling of fresh cilantro and coffee beans.

And yet the most remarkable thing about Gleeson wasn't his immaculately creepy looks—it was his immaculate performance.

But with the immaculate conception of Mary, a being full of grace, an object of God's supreme complacency entered this world.

Have recourse to the intercession of the immaculate Virgin and rest assured that you will obtain this mercy.

She did; as she read, her hand reached out and took a grip upon Herbert's immaculate head!

Monsieur Guillot was there, sitting insolently forward in his box, sleek and immaculate.

In your radiant and immaculate bosom the divine spark may be enshrined, a place without sullying where it may fitly nestle.

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