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Definition: Flawless |
FlawlessAdjective1. Without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flawless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Said of a diamond or other gemstone that is free from flaws of any description when observed by a trained eye under efficient illuminationwith a fully corrected magnifier of not less than 10 power. (references) |
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Synonym: FlawlessSynonym: unflawed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flawless |
| English words defined with "flawless": cultivation, culture ♦ finish ♦ Polish ♦ refinement ♦ unflawed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flawless": oscillator quartz. (references) |
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Screenplays | Look, my choices were flawless, and if your client can't see that, then he is guilty of extremely bad taste, and isn't that the real crime here today (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) But I will say this, the look, is flawless! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
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| "Flawless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.10% of the time. "Flawless" is used about 105 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) | 98.1% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | Flawless Diamond Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "flawless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i patëmetë (faultless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, taintless, unblemished), i pacen (faultless, impeccable), i përsosur (consummate, crowned, fine, indefectible, nonpareil, slap up). (various references) | |
Arabic | متصدع (stricken), مشقق, بلا عيب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безупречно, безупречен (blameless, faultless, immaculate, indefectible, irreproachable, spotless, undeniable, unexceptionable, unimpeachable), без недостатък. (various references) | |
Chinese | 至善至美. (various references) | |
Czech | bezvadný (faultless, immaculate, impeccable, irreproachable, perfect, unexceptionable). (various references) | |
Finnish | virheetön (accurate, correct, faultless, infallible). (various references) | |
French | sans défaut, parfait, impeccable, endommagé, correct. (various references) | |
German | fehlerlos (immaculate, immaculately). (various references) | |
Greek | χωρίσ ελάττωμα, άψογοσ (blameless, faultless, impeccable, irreproachable, unblamed), άψογος (impeccable, sleek). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללא פגם (faultless, immaculate, intact). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hibátlan (immaculate, irreproachable, perfect). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mulus (immaculate, sincere, stainless). (various references) | |
Italian | senza errori (accurate, faultless, unfailing), perfetto (perfect), corretto (correct, right). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 面向不背 , 無傷 (perfect, sound, spotless, unhurt, uninjured, unwounded), 完璧 (completeness, perfection), 完ぺき (completeness, perfection), 完全無欠 (absolute perfection), 完壁 (completeness, perfection), 天衣無縫 (perfect beauty with no trace of artifice). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かんぜんむけつ (absolute perfection), かんぺき (completeness, perfection, short temper), かんべき (completeness, perfection), めんこうふはい, むきず (perfect, sound, spotless, unhurt, uninjured, unwounded), てんいむほう (perfect beauty with no trace of artifice). (various references) | |
Korean | 흠 없는. (various references) | |
Manx | slane jeant (complete, completely done, model, perfect), gyn scaaney, gyn loght (blameless, faultless, guiltless, impeccable, innocent, model, unexceptional). (various references) | |
Norwegian | feilfri (faultless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awlessflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem defeito (soilless, unblemished), perfeito (perfect). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãrã defect, perfect (perfectly), corect (accurate, aright, correct, correctly, exact, fair, faultless, honest, just, justly, mensurable, perfect, precise, right, rightful, rightly, Square, upright). (various references) | |
Russian | безупречный (blameless, faultless, impeccable, indefectible, taintless, unblamable, unblemished, unimpeachable, unimprovable), без изъяна. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez mane. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin tacha, perfecto (perfect). (various references) | |
Swedish | utan fel och brister. (various references) | |
Turkish | lekesiz (clean, immaculate, pure, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished), kusursuz (accomplished, beyond reproach, blameless, capital, clean, correct, excellent, faultless, final, free from taint, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, perfect, precise, root and branch, taintless, the dandy, the perfect, thorough, thoroughgoing, unblemished, unimpeachable), defosuz. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kemsiz-kцstsьz, kemsiz (irreproachable). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), бездоганний (blameless, faultless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, paragon, pure, scrupulous, stainless, taintless, thoroughbred, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không rạn nứt không có chỗ hỏng hoàn thiện, không có vết (unsmirched), hoàn mỹ (knocker). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flawless": flawlessly, flawlessness, flawlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Flawless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fawnless, flowless, flueless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flawless" (pronounced flô"lus) |
| 5 | -l ô" l u s | lawless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: lawless. | |
-2 letters: awless, fellas, swales, swells. | |
-3 letters: alefs, falls, false, fella, fells, flaws, fleas, flews, lases, leafs, safes, sales, seals, selfs, sells, slaws, slews, swale, swell, wales, walls, weals, wells. | |
-4 letters: alef, ales, alls, awes, awls, ells, fall, feal, fell, fess, flaw, flea, flew, lase, lass, laws, leaf, leal, leas, less, safe, sale, sall. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-l-s-s-w" | |
+2 letters: fallowness, flawlessly, lawfulness. | |
+4 letters: fallownesses, flawlessness, lawfulnesses, unlawfulness. | |
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