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   im·mac·u·late

   /iˈmakyələt/

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of a person or their clothes) perfectly clean, neat, or tidy: "an immaculate white suit" Similar cleanspotlesspristineunsoiledunstainedunsulliedspecklessultracleanwhiter than whitesnowy whitelily whiteshiningshinygleamingneattidyneat and tidyspick and spanneat as a new pininformal:squeaky cleanas clean as a whistleperfectpristinemintas good as newflawlessfaultlesswithout blemishunblemishedunimpairedunspoiledundamagedunmarredexcellentimpeccableprimepeakinformal:tip-topA1Opposite dirtygrubbybaddamaged
   • ▪ free from flaws or mistakes; perfect: "an immaculate safety record" Similar unblemishedspotlesspureimpeccableunsulliedundefileduntarnishedstainlessinnocentvirtuousincorruptguiltlesssinlessinformal:squeaky cleanas pure as the driven snowOpposite blameworthy
   • ▪ (in the Roman Catholic Church) free from sin.
   • ▪ uniformly colored without spots or other marks.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘free from moral stain’): from Latin immaculatus, from in- ‘not’ + maculatus ‘stained’ (from macula ‘spot’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. immaculacy noun
   • 2. immaculateness noun

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