Unstained

Definition: Unstained

Unstained

Adjective

1. Not stained; "An apron keeps his clothing unstained".

2. Not having a coating of stain or varnish.

3. Without soil or spot or stain.

4. Of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation".

Date "unstained" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Unstained

Synonyms: stainless (adj), unsoiled (adj), unspotted (adj), unsullied (adj), untainted (adj), untarnished (adj), unvarnished (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: stained (adj). (additional 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.
Probity	Innocent; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved, undebauched; integer vitae scelerisque purus; justus et tenax propositi.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unstained

Specialty definitions using "unstained": Bird in thy Bosom ♦ Mexican hat cell. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Unstained (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Balantidium coli cyst with Trichuris egg inside. Unstained wet mount. Protozoon, roundworm, nematode, parasite. Credit: CDC.		Proglottid of Mesocestoides sp. Unstained. Tapeworm, cestode, parasite. Credit: CDC.
	Entamoeba coli. Direct mount, unstained. Parasite, ameba. Credit: CDC.		Schistosoma japonicum egg, unstained. Parasite. Credit: CDC.
	Clonorchis sinensis egg, unstained. Parasite. Credit: CDC.		Eggs of Fasciolopsis buski, Ascaris, Trichuris, and hookworm for size comparison. Unstained mounted formalin-preserved feces. Parasite. Credit: CDC.
	Eggs of Ascaris (fertile and infertile) and Trichuris. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite. Credit: CDC.		Capillaria philippinensis egg. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite. Credit: CDC.
	Echinostoma and Ascaris eggs for size comparison. Unstained mount of formalin-preserved feces. Parasite. Credit: CDC.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Pollok	Living jewels, dropped unstained from heaven.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unstained" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unstained" is used about 24 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%	24	71,196

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 "unstained"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i panjollë (clean, immaculate, lily white, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unspotted, unsullied). (various references)

Arabic		‏طاهر (chaste, clean, clear, immaculate, innocent, inviolate, pure, saintly, spotless, virgin, virtuous, white). (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, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), неопетнен (immaculate, pure, soilless, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, unsullied, virgin, virginal). (various references)

Czech		neposkvrnìný (immaculate, spotless, taintless, unsullied). (various references)

Danish		ubehandlet praeparat (unstained preparation). (various references)

Finnish		tahraamaton (unsoiled). (various references)

French		sans tache (unblemished, unsullied). (various references)

German		ungefleckt. (various references)

Greek		ακηλίδωτοσ (spotless, stainless, unblemished, unspotted). (various references)

Hungarian		folttalan (unspotted). (various references)

Italian		preparato a fresco (unstained preparation), grandi cellule non colorate (large unstained cells). (various references)

Pig Latin		ainedunstay

Portuguese		sem mancha (pure, soilless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unsullied), sem mácula (soilless, spotless, taintless, unblemished, unsullied), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), limpo (clean, clean-handed, cleanly, cleanly cut, neat, net, orderly, precise, sanitary, spotless, spruce, straight, tidy, trim, unspotted, unsullied, well-done), imaculado (clean, immaculate, lily, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, virgin). (various references)

Romanian		alb (blank, clean, Hoar, hoary, pale face, white). (various references)

Russian		незапятнанный (clean, soilless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unsullied, untarnished). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neumrljan (spotless, unspotted). (various references)

Turkish		temiz (chaste, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, fair, fairly, fresh, kosher, neat, neatly, pure, respectable, sanitary, Spruce, tidy, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted), renksiz (colorless, colourless, dull, opaque, pale, sallow, uncolored, uncoloured, wishywashy), lekesiz (clean, flawless, immaculate, pure, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unsoiled, unspotted, unsullied, untainted, untarnished). (various references)

Vietnamese		không có vết nh (untarnished). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unstained" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ontained, unstriped, untaines. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unstained" (pronounced unstā"nd)
5	-s t ā" n d	abstained, stained, sustained.
4	-t ā" n d	ascertained, attained, contained, detained, entertained, maintained, obtained, pertained, retained.
3	-ā" n d	arraigned, brained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, constrained, craned, disdained, drained, explained, feigned, gained, grained, ingrained, maned, ordained, pained, planed, preordained, rained, refrained, regained, reigned, reined, remained, restrained, retrained, sprained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unexplained, unrestrained, untrained, waned.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: inundates.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: audients, dunnites, inundate, sinuated.
	-2 letters: audient, aunties, dauties, dentins, destain, detains, duennas, dunites, dunnest, dunnite, inanest, indents, instead, intends, sainted, sinuate, stained, stanine, stunned, tunnies, undines, unsated.
	-3 letters: adieus, anenst, audits, auntie, daunts, dautie, dentin, detain, duenna, dunite, duties, ennuis, inanes, indent, indues, innate, insane, intend, nudest, nudies, nudist, sained, sauted, sennit, sienna.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: insinuated, unhandiest, unstrained.
	+2 letters: antistudent, denudations, inductances, mundanities, uninsulated, unsteadying, untarnished.
	+3 letters: antependiums, edutainments, fecundations, mountainside, understating, undertakings, undesignated, unrestrained, unsanctioned, unsteadiness.
	+4 letters: antediluvians, denaturations, denunciations, exsanguinated, fountainheads, guanethidines, insubordinate, misunderstand, mountainsides, noneducations, refoundations, unconstrained, undercoatings, understaffing, understanding.
	+5 letters: consuetudinary, countershading, counterstained, degranulations, denticulations, discontinuance, discountenance, documentarians, documentations, foundationless, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, inadequateness, insubordinates, misunderstands, outlandishness, subinfeudating, subinfeudation, unanesthetized, unconsolidated, underpaintings, understaffings, understandings, unrestrainedly, unstandardized, unsteadinesses, upstandingness.
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