adj
Meaning 1
Exceptionally clean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- spotless shirt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
spotless
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, US: /spɑtlɪs/
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rhymes with -ɒtləs
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CMU ARPABET: S P AA1 T L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Impeccable and free from blemish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- spotless nature
- spotless record
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Lacking spots; unspotted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
completely neat and clean
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the apartment was immaculate
- in her immaculate white uniform
- a spick-and-span kitchen
- their spic red-visored caps
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English spotles, equivalent to spot + -less.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: безупречно чист (bezuprečno čist) — exceptionally clean
- Ancient Greek: ἄσπιλος (áspilos) — exceptionally clean
- Māori: parakore — exceptionally clean
- Russian: незапя́тнанный (nezapjátnannyj) — exceptionally clean
- Sanskrit: अमल (amala) — exceptionally clean
- Spanish: impecable — exceptionally clean
- Bulgarian: безупречен (bezuprečen) — impeccable and free from blemish
- Chinese Mandarin: 無瑕 /无瑕 (wúxiá) — impeccable and free from blemish
- Esperanto: senmakula — impeccable and free from blemish
- German: makellos — impeccable and free from blemish
- Hungarian: hibátlan — impeccable and free from blemish
- Icelandic: flekklaus — impeccable and free from blemish
- Russian: безупре́чный (bezupréčnyj) — impeccable and free from blemish
- Sanskrit: अमल (amala) — impeccable and free from blemish
- Swedish: fläckfri — impeccable and free from blemish
- Ottoman Turkish: آری (arı) — impeccable and free from blemish
- Bulgarian: без петна (bez petna) — (zoology) lacking spots; unspotted.
- Spanish: sin manchas — (zoology) lacking spots; unspotted.
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