Pristine

Definition: Pristine

Pristine

Adjective

1. Completely free from dirt or contamination; "pristine mountain snow".

2. Immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pristine" was first used: 1534. (references)

Etymology: Pristine \Pris"tine\, adjective. [Latin expression pristinus, akin to prior: compare to the French expression pristin. See Prior,]. (Websters 1913)

The Past

Former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late; ancestral.

Crosswords: Pristine

Only from me 007, unless you bring that car back in pristine order. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

One pristine bullet? (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

I dream of massive, pristine convenience. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

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

Books

• Evolution of Social Values on Planets and Their Biological Bases: From Waste Dumps to Pristine Biotas (reference)

• Software Distribution for Aix: A Solution for Installation and Configuration of Pristine Aix Environments (reference)

• The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States (reference)

• The Pristine Yi King: The Pure Wisdom of Ancient China (Llewellyn's Inner Guide Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pristine Smut (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Aerial view of meandering tidal creeks and extensive pristine marshes in North Inlet Estuary. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

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

Health

In a seemingly pristine environment, some people have many non-specific complaints such as problems concentrating or depression. (references)

Economic History

Spain

With the projected economic stability and an increasing awareness and curiosity for the U.S. in general, particularly among the younger generations, Spain is a pristine market of opportunity for a wide-variety of U.S. destinations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Beginning with "pristine": pristine-white.

Albanian

origjinal (original, originality, patent, quaint, racy, uncoined, unconventional, unfeigned, unhackneyed), i paprishur (incorruptible, irrefrangible, irrevocable, undecayable, undestroyed, unspoiled, unspoilt), i pacenuar (intact, whole). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير مفسد, ‏عزري (salubrious), ‏أصلي وعريق, ‏أصلي (authentic, bona fide, ethnic, ethnical, fundamental, genetic, genetical, original, overriding, premier, prime, primordial, proper, pukka, radical, true), ‏بدائي (aboriginal, embryonic, primaeval, primal, primeval, primitive, primordial, rudimentary). (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, 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), първобитен (primaeval, primal, primitive), първичен (aboriginal, elemental, live, living, original, primary, prime, primordial, protogenic, rudimental), примитивен (barbaric, primary, primitive, rude, uncouth, wild and woolly), древен (age-old, ancient, archaic, hoary, old, old world, olden, venerable), девствен (chaste, maiden, primaeval, pure, vestal, virgin, virginal). (various references)

Chinese 

原始 (Original, Originally, Primitive, Primordial). (various references)

Danish

uberoert fiber (bare glass fibre, pristine fibre), ren fiber (bare glass fibre, pristine fibre). (various references)

Dutch

maagdelijke glasvezel (bare glass fibre, pristine fibre), maagdelijke glasdraad (bare glass fibre, pristine fibre), maagdelijk glas (pristine glass). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشین (Antecedent, Fore, Former, Olden, Previous, Primeval, Primitive, Prior), تروتازه (Fresh, Green, Spannew), طبیعی ودست نخورده , اولی . (various references)

Finnish

paljas kuitu (bare glass fibre, pristine fibre), neitseellinen lasi (pristine glass), neitseellinen kuitu (bare glass fibre, pristine fibre), muinaislasi (pristine glass). (various references)

French

primitif (primaeval, primal, primeval, primitive), parfait, virginal, original (proper), d'origine. (various references)

German

ursprünglich (aboriginal, at first, first, fundamental, in the beginning, initial, initially, natural, orginally, original, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primordial, unspoiled, unspoilt). (various references)

Greek 

πρωτόγονοσ (aboriginal, primeval, primitive), αρχικόσ (inceptive, initial, initiatory, original, originative, primal, primary, primitive, primordial), αρχαϊκόσ (archaic). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקורי וט�"ור. (various references)

Hungarian

régi (ancient, antique, bygone, centner, hand-me-down, hoar, hoary, of old, old, old time, old-world, past, stale, time honored, time-honoured, time-worn), hajdani (ci-devant, erstwhile, long-ago, of old, of yore, old time, old world, old-world, once, onetime, quondam, sometime, whilom), ősi (aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, immemorial, primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial), őseredeti (primaeval), ős (ancestor, forbear, forebear, forefather, old man, parent, primaeval, progenitor, sire). (various references)

Italian

puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, dignified, maiden, maidenly, mere, neat, pure, sheer, sinless, sterling), pristino, incontaminato. (various references)

Manx

roie- (afore-, fore-, formerly, pre-, prefix fore-, preliminary, pro forma). (various references)

Pig Latin

istinepray

Portuguese

pristino, prisco, primitivo (barbaric, early, first, forehand, former, larrikin, low-lived, origin, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, savage, whilom, wilding), antigo (ancient, antique, archaic, auld, former, late, old, olden, once, quondam, whilom). (various references)

Romanian

primar (bailiff, elementary, initial, mayor, once removed, primal, primary, primeval, provost), curat (absolute, bald, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white). (various references)

Russian 

чистый (bare, clean, clear, crystal, fresh, maiden, native, net, pure, royal blue, unalloyed, unblended). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prastari, iskonski (primaeval, seminal), drevni (immemorial, primeval). (various references)

Spanish

prístino (primaeval, primeval). (various references)

Swedish

ursprunglig (aboriginal, coming, natural, original, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, simple), ren (already, bare, blank, border, brim, brink, by now, chaste, classic, clean, clear, ditch-bank, edge, edging, fine, fringe, headland, immaculate, mere, outright, Plumb, pure, rand, reindeer, riendeer, rim, sanitary, sheer, simple, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed, undiluted, unpolluted, unsullied, verge, very, white, yet), forntida (ancient, antique). (various references)

Turkish

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, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, 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), ilk (early, elementary, first, initial, initiative, initiatory, maiden, preliminary, premier, primal, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, proto-, the very first), eskiden kalma (ancient, of old, old, secular, time honored, time-honoured), eski zamana ait, bozulmamış (intact, inviolate, sound, unbroken, unimpaired, unsophisticated, unspoiled, unspoilt, untainted, untouched), önceki (antecedent, anterior, before, ex, ex-, foregoing, former, hereinabove, last, old, onetime, pre-, preceding, previous, prior, pro-, quondam, sometime, the former). (various references)

Ukrainian

старовинний (antiquarian, antique, early, elder, eldest, old, old time, old world, vintage), чистий (absolute, austere, blank, bright, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, neat, net, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), колишній (ancient, departed, erstwhile, foregone, former, lapsed, late, old, olden, once, one time, overpast, prior, quondam). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thời xưa (foretime), cổ xưa (antiquated, archaic, obsolete), ban sơ; xưa. (various references)

pristinam, pristini, pristinis, pristinos, pristinum, pristinus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pristine": pristinely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pristine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cristini, parietina, pittine, practioner, Prasina, prespinal, prestile, prestine, prestinge, priestine, prietini, Printgine, Priskin, pristene, pristiene, pristina, pristinge, Prittie, prostyle, Pruzine, triestine. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inspire, piniest, pinites, pitiers, pterins, spinier, tiepins, tipsier.

-2 letters: esprit, estrin, inerts, insert, instep, inters, niters, nitres, pinier, pinite, pitier, pities, priest, prints, pterin, repins, ripens, ripest, seniti, sinter, sniper, spinet, spirit, sprent, sprint, sprite, stripe, tiepin, tinier, triens, trines, tripes.

-3 letters: inept, inert, inset, inter, intis, neist, nerts, nisei, niter, nites, nitre.

+1 letter: nephritis, pinstripe, priesting, respiting.

+2 letters: fingertips, imprinters, inspirited, internship, isentropic, misprinted, nitpickers, perditions, persisting, pinstriped, pinstripes, presifting, printeries, pristinely, pteridines, punditries, recipients, repositing, reposition, reptilians, septenarii, snippetier, springiest, springtide, springtime.

+3 letters: antipyresis, antipyrines, description, expirations, impairments, inscriptive, internships, interparish, interpoints, interposing, nephritides, paternities, patrimonies, percipients, peritonitis, petitioners, plaistering, planarities, pleinairist, precipitins, predictions, preexisting, prenotifies, preposition, prewritings, princeliest, profanities, proficients, repetitions, repositions, respiration, resplitting, serendipity, silverpoint, sphincteric, spinsterish, splintering, springtides, springtimes, stipendiary, stringpiece, temporising, traineeship, tribuneship, voiceprints, xiphisterna.

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