Definition of IMMACULATE

immaculate

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • completely neat and clean
    • "the apartment was immaculate"
    • "in her immaculate white uniform"
  • free from stain or blemish
  • without fault or error
    • "timing and technique were immaculate"
    • "an immaculate record"

Adj

  • Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
  • Containing no mistakes.
  • Containing no mistakes.
  • Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors.
  • Free from sin; morally pure; sinless.
  • Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled.
  • Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings.

Origin / Etymology

From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from *smeh₁- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Cognates
* Catalan immaculat
* Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete)
* Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé)
* Portuguese imaculado
* Spanish inmaculado

Synonyms

chaste, cherry, clean, clean as a whistle, clear, faultless, flawless, halal, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, irreproachable, kosher, lily-white, natural, perfect, pristine, pure, self-coloured, simon-pure, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless, squeaky clean, stainless, unadulterated, uncontaminated, undefiled, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unsullied, untainted, untouched, virgin

Scrabble Score: 16

immaculate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
immaculate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
immaculate is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

immaculate is a valid Words With Friends word