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Definition: TAINTLESS |
TAINTLESSAdjective1. Free from taint or infection; pure. |
Date "TAINTLESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Adjective: clean, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TAINTLESS |
| English words defined with "TAINTLESS": Taintlessly. (references) |
| "TAINTLESS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAINTLESS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TAINTLESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i patëmetë (faultless, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, unblemished). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), неопетнен (immaculate, pure, soilless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, virgin, virginal), непорочен (chaste, pure, pure-minded, saintly, saturnian, unblemished, vestal, virginal, virtuous), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), пресен (caller, fresh, good, new, new-laid, spick and span, sweet, warm, young). (various references) | |
Czech | neposkvrnìný (immaculate, spotless, unstained, unsullied), èistý (absolute, blank, clean, clear, fine, neat, net, new, perfect, pure, stainless, straight, tidy, true, unalloyed, untainted, white). (various references) | |
Greek | αμόλυντοσ (pure, undefiled, unpolluted), αμίαντοσ (amianthus, asbestos). (various references) | |
Hungarian | romlatlan (unspoiled, untainted), szeplőtlen (immaculate, pure, spotless, undefiled, untarnished, white). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aintlesstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem mácula (soilless, spotless, unblemished, unstained, unsullied), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, commercially pure, crisp, fresh, genuine, immanence, incorruptibility, innocent, naked, neat, Plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, straight, sweet, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), inocente (blameless, clear, guilty, harmless, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, inoffensive, lambrequin, shirt-sleeve, sinless, unoffending, unsophisticated), imaculado (clean, immaculate, lily livered, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, virgin). (various references) | |
Romanian | neprihãnit (guileless, pure), nepãtat (immaculate, spotless, stainless, unblemished, virgin). (various references) | |
Russian | безупречный (blameless, faultless, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, lily white, perfect, polished, pure, stainless, unblamable, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unimpechable, unimprovable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez mrlje (spick and span, stainless, unblemished). (various references) | |
Spanish | limpio (chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, fair, fairly, Frank, fresh, incautious, net, over the counter, pure, tidy, transparent, unpolluted). (various references) | |
Turkish | tertemiz (idyllic, immaculate, neatly, spick and span, spotlessly clean, stainless, unsullied, unworn, very clean), lekesiz (clean, flawless, immaculate, pure, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished), kusursuz (accomplished, beyond reproach, blameless, capital, clean, correct, excellent, faultless, final, flawless, free from taint, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, perfect, precise, root and branch, the dandy, the perfect, thorough, thoroughgoing, unblemished, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Ukranian | незаплямований (fair, immaculate, soilless, spotless), бездоганний (blameless, faultless, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, paragon, pure, scrupulous, stainless, thoroughbred, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không có vết nhơ trong sạch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "TAINTLESS" (pronounced 'Taint"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless, Bushless, Careless, Chaffless, Chainless, Changeless, Chapeless, Chapless, Chargeless, Charmless, Chartless, Checkless, Cheerless, Chiefless, Christless, Churchless, Claimless, Clankless, Clawless, Clerkless, Cloudless, Cloyless, Coatless, Combless, Conceitless, Contentless, Corruptless, Costless, Couchless, Countless, Craftless, Creedless, Crestless, Crimeless, Crownless, Cubless, Curbless, Curdless, Cureless, Dateless, Dauntless, Deathless, Debtless, Deceitless, Decreaseless, Deedless, Defenseless, Delightless, Denseless, Depthless, Desertless, Designless, Desireless, Devoutless, Dewless, Diskless, Disputeless, Distrustless, Divorceless, Dogeless, Doorless, Dreamless, Driftless, Drinkless, Drossless, Ductless, Dureless, Dustless, Earless, Easeless, Edgeless, Effectless, Endless, Eventless, Exceptless, Excuseless, Exhaustless, Expenseless, Extremeless, Eyeless, Fadeless, Faithless, Fameless, Fangless, Faultless, Fearless, Feckless, Feetless, Fenceless, Fineless, Finless, Fireless, Firmless, Flameless, flawless, Fleckless, Fleeceless, Fleshless, Floorless, foamless, Fogless, Foldless, foodless, footless, forceless, Fordless, Forkless, formless, Fraudless, Freightless, FRIENDLESS, Frightless, Fringeless, Frockless, Frontless, Frostless, Frothless, Frounceless, fruitless, Fumeless, Funuless, Gainless, Gameless, Gateless, Gaudless, Germless, Ghostless, Glebeless, godless, Goldless, Goodless, graceless, Grapeless, Graspless, grassless, Graveless, Griefless, groundless, Guardless, Guideless, guileless, guiltless, Gustless, hairless, handless, hapless, harmless, hatless, Haveless, Hazeless, headless, Healthless, heartless, heatless, Hedgeless, heedless, Heelless, Heirless, Helmless, helpless, Herbless, Hingeless, Hireless, Hiveless, homeless, Hoodless, Hoofless, hopeless, hornless, Horseless, Hostless, HOUSELESS, hueless, Humpless, Hurtless, Importless, Irresistless, Itchless, Jointless, joyless, juiceless, Kindless, Kingless, Knightless, Knotless, Lampless, landless, lawless, leafless, Leaveless, legless, lidless, lifeless, lightless, limbless, lipless, listless, Lockless, lossless, loveless, luckless, Lungless, Lustless, Makeless, Maneless, Manless, matchless, mateless, meatless, Mightless, mindless, mirthless, Mistrustless, Moistless, moonless, Mouthless, Museless, Nailless, Nameless, Napless, Nathless, nerveless, Nightless, Noiseless, Noseless, Noteless, Oarless, Offenseless, Opposeless, Painless, Paintless, Palpless, Paneless, Pangless, Passless, Pathless, Peaceless, Peerless, Phaseless, Phraseless, Pieceless, Pithless, Placeless, Plagueless, Plaintless, Planless, Plantless, Pledgeless, Pluckless, Plumeless, Pointless, Poleless, Praiseless, Prayerless, Pretenseless, Priceless, Prideless, Priestless, Princeless, Proofless, Pulseless, Quenchless, Rainless, rayless, Reachless, Realmless, Rechless, reckless, Reclaimless, Recureless, Redeless, Redressless, Reedless, regardless, Reinless, relentless, Reliefless, remorseless, Renownless, Repentless, Reproachless, Repulseless, Reputeless, resistless, resourceless, Respectless, Responseless, restless, Resultless, Retchless, Returnless, Revengeless, Reverseless, Rewardless, rhymeless, Rhythmless, ribless, Rightless, Rindless, roadless, Rockless, roofless, Roomless, rootless, Ruleless, Rumpless, rustless, Sackless, Sailless, Saltless, sapless, Sateless, scaleless, Scapeless, Scarless, Scathless, scentless, Schismless, seamless, Searchless, Seatless, seedless, Seemless, selfless, senseless, sexless, Shadeless, shameless, shapeless, Sheathless, Shieldless, shiftless, Shipless, Shirtless, shoeless, Shoreless, Shredless, Shroudless, Shrubless, Shunless, Sickless, sightless, sinless, Skinless, Slakeless, sleepless, sleeveless, Smileless, Smockless, smokeless, Snowless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: antsiest, elastins, instates, nailsets, nastiest, salients, saltiest, saltines, satinets, slatiest, tintless, titaness. | |
-2 letters: elastin, enlists, entails, entasis, instals, instate, latents, latests, lattens, lattins, listens, nailset, nasties, salient, salines, saltest, salties, saltine, satinet, sestina, silanes, silents, slainte, stalest, talents, tanists, tansies, tenails, tinsels, tisanes. | |
-3 letters: aisles, aliens, alines, anises, assent, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, insets, instal, islets, istles, lassie, latens, latent, latest, latten, lattes, lattin, leasts, lianes, listen, litten, saints, saline, saltie, sanest, sanies, sansei, satins, siesta, silane, silent, sitten, slants, slates, sliest, snails, stains, stales, stanes, states, steals, steins, stelai, stiles, stilts, stints, taints, talent, tanist, tassel, tasset, tassie, tastes, tenail, tenias, teslas, testis, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane, titans, titles. | |
-4 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alist, anile, anils, anise, antes, antis, asset, atilt, easts, elain, elans, elint, entia, etnas, inlet, inset, isles, islet, istle, lanes, lases, lasts, laten, latte, leans, leant, least, lenis, liane, liens, lines, lints, lists, litas, nails, nates, neats, neist, nests, netts, nites, sails, sains, saint, sales, salts, sanes, sasin, sates, satin, satis, seals, seats, sensa, senti, setal, setts, sials, silts, sines, sisal, sites, slain, slant, slate, slats, slits, snail, snits, stain, stale, stane, state, stats, steal, stein, stela, stets, sties, stile, stilt, stint, taels, tails, tains, taint, tales, tasse, taste, tates, teals, teats, telia, tenia, tents, tesla, testa, tests, tiles, tilts, tinea, tines, tints, titan, title. | |
-5 letters: ails, ains, aits, ales, alit, alts, anes, anil, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, elan, etas, etna, ilea, isle, lain, lane, lase, lass, last, late, lati, lats, lean, leas, leis, lens, lent, less, lest, lets, lien, lies, line, lins, lint, list, lite, lits, nail, neat, ness, nest, nets, nett, nils, nite, nits, sail, sain, sale, sals, salt, sane, sans, sate, sati, seal, seas, seat, seis, sels, sent, seta, sets, sett, sial, silt, sine, sins, site, sits, slat, slit, snit, stat, stet, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tans, tass, tate, tats, teal, teas, teat, tela, tels, tens, tent, test, tets, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tine, tins, tint, tits. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: mentalists, saintliest, sterilants, tantalises. | |
+2 letters: centralists, instalments, neutralists, stateliness. | |
+3 letters: antielitisms, antielitists, antirealists, clarinetists, essentialist, essentiality, installments, intercostals, kinetoplasts, literateness, militantness, mistranslate, molestations, orientalists, paternalists, scintillates, stablishment, stealthiness, tessellating, tessellation, testimonials, ultimateness. | |
+4 letters: anecdotalists, antinovelists, clarinettists, dilettantisms, emotionalists, essentialists, establishment, instabilities, instrumentals, interstadials, lightfastness, mercantilists, mistranslated, mistranslates, nematologists, neoplasticist, stablishments, statelinesses, statesmanlike, substantively, talkativeness, tessellations, traditionless, wollastonites. | |
+5 letters: anelasticities, articulateness, conceptualists, constellations, dismantlements, dissertational, documentalists, essentialities, establishments, existentialism, existentialist, expostulations, gesticulations, illiterateness, inelasticities, intolerantness, letterspacings, liberationists, literatenesses, militantnesses, monometallists, neonatologists, neoplasticists, ostentatiously, paleobotanists, planetologists, quintessential, restimulations, retranslations, sacramentalist, sensationalist, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalist, sexploitations, simultaneities, slatternliness, stainabilities, stealthinesses, sterilizations, streetwalkings, sublieutenants, telangiectases, telangiectasis, televangelists, transliterates, transsexuality, ultimatenesses, ultradistances, ultrasensitive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 49 4E 54 4C 45 53 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. -. - .-.. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010100 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A I N T L E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 0049 004E 0054 004C 0045 0053 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)543543485446395353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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