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Definitions: Immaculate |
ImmaculateAdjective1. Completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps". 2. Free from stain or blemish. 3. Without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immaculate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Immaculate \Im*mac"u*late\, adjective. [Latin expression immaculatus; prefix im- not maculatus, past participle of maculare to spot, stane, from macula spot. See Mail armor.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ImmaculateSynonyms: faultless (adj), impeccable (adj), speckless (adj), spic (adj), spic-and-span (adj), spick (adj), spick-and-span (adj), spotless (adj), undefiled (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. |
Innocence | Adjective: innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian; (artless). |
Perfection | Adjective: perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy; (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus; consummate; (complete); finished. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Immaculate |
| English words defined with "immaculate": faultless ♦ Immaculate Conception, immaculately, impeccable, Innocent party ♦ speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "immaculate": Beads ♦ Scotists. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | From a deep, immaculate kiss she spread her two ripe, dripping limbs and then I happened. (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins) | |
Lyrics | Mine, immaculate dream, made breath and skin, I've been waiting for you, ("Come Undone"; performing artist: Duran Duran) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Immaculate Funk (2000) | |
Song Titles | Immaculate Fools (performing artist: Immaculate Fools) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | [Church of the Immaculate Conception].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The immaculate is there, austere to behold. |
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| "Immaculate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immaculate" is used about 492 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% | 492 | 12,185 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "immaculate": immaculate conception. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "immaculate": less-than-immaculate, once-immaculate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
immaculate conception | 116 |
immaculate heart of mary | 67 |
immaculate | 49 |
church conception immaculate | 34 |
consumption immaculate | 24 |
immaculate conception school | 22 |
immaculate mary | 22 |
immaculate reception | 20 |
immaculate heart academy | 19 |
immaculate heart | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immaculate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i patëmetë (faultless, flawless, impeccable, indefectible, taintless, unblemished), i papërlyer (chaste, clean), i panjollë (clean, lily white, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied), i pamëkatë (sinless). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظيف (clean, cleanly, fair, neat, sanitary, spotless, spruce, stainless, taut, tidy), تقي (devout, godliness, godly, holy, mystic, pious, prayerful, religious), طاهر (chaste, clean, clear, innocent, inviolate, pure, saintly, spotless, unstained, virgin, virtuous, white). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, 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, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), неопетнен (pure, soilless, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, virgin, virginal), безукорен (above reproach, impeccable, irreproachable, perfect, unblamable, unexceptionable, unspotted), безупречен (blameless, faultless, flawless, indefectible, irreproachable, spotless, undeniable, unexceptionable, unimpeachable), без петна (unmarked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 洁净 (Cleanliness, kosher). (various references) | |
Czech | vzorný (exemplary, ideal, model, perfect), neposkvrnìný (spotless, taintless, unstained, unsullied), dokonalý (accomplished, cast iron, consummate, ideal, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, utter, very), bezvadný (faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, perfect, unexceptionable), bezúhonný (fair, impeccable, irreproachable, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, untainted, upstanding), bez vady. (various references) | |
Farsi | معصوم (Innocent). (various references) | |
Finnish | tahraton (spotless, unblemished, untainted). (various references) | |
French | impeccable (impeccable), immaculé, propre. (various references) | |
German | makellos (fair, finished, flawless, perfect, pure, spotless, unblemished, undamaged, unimpeachable, unmarked, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, watertight), fehlerlos (flawless, immaculately), einwandfrei (faultless, immaculately, immaculateness, impeccable, indisputable, irreproachable, perfect, sound, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, untainted). (various references) | |
Greek | άσπιλοσ (lily white, spotless), άμωμοσ, αγνόσ (chaste, innocent, pure, sterling, undiluted, unpolluted, vestal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללא פ'ם (faultless, flawless, intact), ללא רבב (perfect, spotless, stainless, unsullied). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hibátlan (clear, entire, faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, perfect, sound, unblemished). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak bernoda (spotless, stainless), mulus (flawless, sincere, stainless). (various references) | |
Italian | impeccabile (impeccable), immacolato (spotless, stainless, untarnished). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雪白 (pure, snow-white). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せっぱく (acuteness, end of the year, imminence, pressure, pure, snow-white, tension, urgency). (various references) | |
Manx | ree-glen, neulheamysagh (unblemished), gyn cron (blameless, impeccable, irreproachable, stainless). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ulastelig (irreprochable), uklanderlig (impeccable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immaculateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inocente (blameless, clear, guilty, harmless, ingenuous, innocent, inoffensive, lambrequin, shirt-sleeve, sinless, taintless, unoffending, unsophisticated), impecável (faulty, impeccable, irresistibility), imaculado (clean, lily livered, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, virgin), pureza (chastity, cleanliness, innocence, integument, limpness, purity, whiteness). (various references) | |
Romanian | ireproşabil (blameless, faultless, faultlessly, impeccable, irreproachable, irreproachably, unimpeachable), impecabil (impeccable, impeccably), imaculat (spotless, unblemished, unspotted), virgin (inviolate, pure, virgin, virginal), pur (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, fine, genuine, mere, modest, pure, sheer, simple, stainless, unmixed, virginal, white), nevinovat (blameless, chaste, childlike, harmless, innocent, not guilty, pure, sackless, silly, simple, white), nepãtat (spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, virgin), feciorelnic (bashful, bashfully, coy, maidenlike, virginal, virginally), fãrã patã (fleckless), curat (absolute, bald, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white). (various references) | |
Russian | безукоризненный (irreproachable, unimpeachable), безупречный (blameless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, indefectible, lily white, perfect, polished, pure, stainless, taintless, unblamable, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unimpechable, unimprovable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neuprljan (unsoiled), besprekoran (faultless, impeccable, irreproachable, spotless, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Spanish | inmaculado (spotless, stainless, unsullied). (various references) | |
Swedish | ren (already, bare, blank, border, brim, brink, by now, caribou, chaste, classic, clean, clear, ditch-bank, edge, edging, fine, fringe, headland, mere, outright, Plumb, pristine, pure, rand, reindeer, riendeer, rim, sanitary, sheer, simple, sound, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed, undiluted, unpolluted, unsullied, verge, very, white, yet), obefläckad (undefiled, unsullied, virgin). (various references) | |
Thai | บริสุทธิ์ (clean, lily, pure, purify), สะอา"และเป็นระเบียบมาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tertemiz (idyllic, neatly, spick and span, spotlessly clean, stainless, taintless, unsullied, unworn, very clean), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), masum (blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, ingenuous, innocent, lamblike, sinless, wide-eyed), lekesiz (clean, flawless, pure, spotless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished), kusursuz (accomplished, beyond reproach, blameless, capital, clean, correct, excellent, faultless, final, flawless, free from taint, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, perfect, precise, root and branch, taintless, the dandy, the perfect, thorough, thoroughgoing, unblemished, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Ukranian | чистий (absolute, austere, blank, bright, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, native, neat, net, pristine, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), незаплямований (fair, soilless, spotless, taintless), бездоганний (blameless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, paragon, pure, scrupulous, stainless, taintless, thoroughbred, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trong trắng (chaste, lily, stainless, virginal), tinh khiết (unalloyed, undefiled, vestal), không có khuyết điểm n o. (various references) | |
Welsh | difrycheulyd (spotless). (various references) | |
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| Avestan | 200-600 | anâhita. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immaculate": immaculately. (additional references) | |
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"Immaculate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bimaculata, Bimaculated, bimaculatus, imaculat, imaculate, imasculate, immacculate, immasculate, immavulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immaculate" (pronounced i'ma"kyuwlut) |
| 6 | -k y uw l u t | emasculate. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-m-m-t-u" | |
-2 letters: calamite, maculate, malamute, malemiut. | |
-3 letters: calumet, camelia, climate, imamate, lemmata, maculae, metical. | |
-4 letters: acetal, acetum, actual, acuate, aculei, aecial, aecium, almuce, amulet, atelic, calami, camail, camlet, lactam, lamiae, luetic, macula, macule, malate, malice, maumet, meatal, muleta, talcum, tamale, tammie, telium, ultima. | |
-5 letters: aceta, acute, aecia, alate, amice, aulic, camel, claim, cleat, clime, culet, culti, cutie, eclat, email, ileac, ileum, imaum, lamia, lemma, lutea, macle, maile, malic, mamie, melic, metal, miaul, mulct, tamal, telia, telic, tical, ulama, ulema, umiac, utile. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-m-m-t-u" | |
+2 letters: immaculately. | |
+4 letters: circumambulate. | |
+5 letters: circumambulated, circumambulates, ultracommercial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 61 63 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m a c u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0061 0063 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43797967698778678671 |
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