Immaculate

  

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Immaculate

Definitions: Immaculate

Immaculate

Adjective

1. 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: Immaculate

Synonyms: faultless (adj), impeccable (adj), speckless (adj), spic (adj), spic-and-span (adj), spick (adj), spick-and-span (adj), spotless (adj), undefiled (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Immaculate

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Immaculate

English words defined with "immaculate": faultlessImmaculate Conception, immaculately, impeccable, Innocent partyspeckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless. (references)
Specialty definitions using "immaculate": BeadsScotists. (references)

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Modern Usage: Immaculate

DomainUsage

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)

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection (1990)

Song Titles

Immaculate Fools (performing artist: Immaculate Fools)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Immaculate

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Immaculate

Photos:
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Photo Album: Immaculate

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

[Church of the Immaculate Conception].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Immaculate

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The immaculate is there, austere to behold.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Immaculate

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%49212,185

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Immaculate

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Immaculate

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Immaculate

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Immaculate

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Avestan200-600

anâhita. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Immaculate

Derivations

Words beginning with "immaculate": immaculately. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Immaculate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "immaculate" (pronounced i'ma"kyuwlut)
6-k y uw l u temasculate.
3-l u tamulet, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Immaculate

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Immaculate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6D 6D 61 63 75 6C 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --    --    .-    -.-.    ..-    .-..    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101101 01101101 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#109 &#97 &#99 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 006D 0061 0063 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43797967698778678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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