adj
Meaning 1
Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He grew up in Norway, but he writes impeccable English.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
impeccable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- It was easy for James V to imprison Lady Glamis, but actually convicting her was far more difficult; her character was impeccable and she was highly respected by all who knew her.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
without fault or error
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- faultless logic
- speaks impeccable French
- timing and technique were immaculate
- an immaculate record
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: faultless, immaculate
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
not capable of sin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle French impeccable, from Latin impeccabilis (“not liable to sin”), from im- (“not”) + peccare (“to err, to sin”).
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَعْصُوم (maʕṣūm) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Arabic: كَامِل (kāmil) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Bulgarian: безупречен (bezuprečen) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Catalan: impecable — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Chinese Mandarin: 無瑕 /无瑕 (wúxiá) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Chinese Mandarin: 無懈可擊 /无懈可击 (wúxièkějī) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Czech: bezvadný — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Czech: dokonalý — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Czech: bezchybný — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Dutch: onberispelijk — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Finnish: virheetön — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Finnish: moitteeton — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- French: impeccable — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- German: makellos — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- German: einwandfrei — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- German: tadellos — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- German: fehlerfrei — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Greek: άψογος (ápsogos) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Greek: τέλειος (téleios) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Hungarian: kifogástalan — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Hungarian: hibátlan — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Icelandic: lýtalaus — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Italian: impeccabile — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Macedonian: беспрекорен (besprekoren) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Malayalam: കുറ്റമറ്റ (kuṟṟamaṟṟa) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Polish: nieskazitelny — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Portuguese: impecável — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Russian: безупре́чный (bezupréčnyj) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Russian: безукори́зненный (bezukoríznennyj) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Slovene: brezhiben — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Slovene: popoln — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Spanish: impecable — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Swedish: fläckfri — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Swedish: oantastlig — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Ukrainian: бездоганний (bezdohannyj) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Urdu: معصُوم (masoom) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Urdu: بے عیب (bay aib) — Perfect, having no faults, flaws or errors
- Arabic: مَعْصُوم (maʕṣūm) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Bulgarian: безукорен (bezukoren) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Catalan: impecable — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Czech: bezúhonný — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Czech: neposkvrněný — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Dutch: zondeloos — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Finnish: nuhteeton — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Finnish: rikkeetön — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- French: impeccable — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- German: unfehlbar — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- German: untadelig — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- German: makellos — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Greek: αναμάρτητος (anamártitos) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Hungarian: makulátlan — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Hungarian: feddhetetlen — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Macedonian: непогрешлив (nepogrešliv) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Macedonian: безгрешен (bezgrešen) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Malayalam: കുറ്റമറ്റ (kuṟṟamaṟṟa) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Polish: bezgrzeszny — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Russian: непогреши́мый (nepogrešímyj) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Russian: безгре́шный (bezgréšnyj) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Slovene: brezmadežen — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Slovene: brezhiben — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Spanish: impecable — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Swedish: ofelbar — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Ukrainian: безгрішний (bezhrišnyj) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Ukrainian: непорочний (neporočnyj) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
- Urdu: معصُوم (masoom) — Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate