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Definition: Spotless |
SpotlessAdjective1. Completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spotless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonyms: SpotlessSynonyms: immaculate (adj), speckless (adj), spic (adj), spic-and-span (adj), spick (adj), spick-and-span (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless; (perfect). |
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: Spotless |
| English words defined with "spotless": Blemishless ♦ Innocent party ♦ spotlessly ♦ Wemless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spotless": Abida ♦ HYDER FLARE ♦ PLAGENIL ♦ SPOTNIL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spotless": Wemless. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Never let it be said that a Hardy's Spotless reputation to be so maliciously tread upon. (Tit for Tat; writing credit: Stan Laurel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Senator Daniel Webster | When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. |
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| "Spotless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.21% of the time. "Spotless" is used about 127 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) | 99.21% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 127 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Australia | Spotless Group Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
eternal mind spotless sunshine | 43 |
spotless | 18 |
spotless services | 3 |
honecker huhn spotless | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spotless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pastër (absolute, chaste, childlike, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, dapper, fair, innocent, neat, net, new, orderly, potty-trained, pure, refined, simon-pure, snug, sterling, tidy, trig, unadulterated, unblended, unimpeachable, unwritten, virgin, virginal, well groomed, white), i panjollë (clean, immaculate, lily white, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نظيف (clean, cleanly, fair, immaculate, neat, sanitary, spruce, stainless, taut, tidy), لا عيب فيه (faultless, irreproachable), ساطع (bright, dazzling, effulgent, glaring, incandescent, shining, splendid), طاهر (chaste, clean, clear, immaculate, innocent, inviolate, pure, saintly, unstained, virgin, virtuous, white). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неопетнен (immaculate, pure, soilless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, virgin, virginal), безупречно чист, безупречен (blameless, faultless, flawless, immaculate, indefectible, irreproachable, undeniable, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一尘不". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neposkvrnìný (immaculate, taintless, unstained, unsullied), bezúhonný (fair, immaculate, impeccable, irreproachable, stainless, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, untainted, upstanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ensvarvet staer (spotless starling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwarte spreeuw (spotless starling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tahraton (immaculate, unblemished, untainted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans tache, reluisant, impeccable (spick and span, Spruce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fleckenlos (fleckless, unmarked, untainted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεντακάθαροσ (very clean, very neat), άσπιλοσ (immaculate, lily white), άμεμπτοσ (blameless, irreproachable, polished, unblamable, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable), ακηλίδωτοσ (stainless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללא "ופי (impeccable, irreproachable, unimpeachable), ללא רבב (immaculate, perfect, stainless, unsullied), זך (clear, innocent, lucid, pure, transparent, virginal), קי מאו". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | makulátlan (clear, immaculate, soilless, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untouched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak bernoda (immaculate, stainless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | immacolato (immaculate, stainless, untarnished). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無傷 (flawless, perfect, sound, unhurt, uninjured, unwounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むきず (flawless, perfect, sound, unhurt, uninjured, unwounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 완벽한 (airtight, Air-tight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn lheamys (unblemished). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otlessspay sem mancha (pure, soilless, stainless, unblemished, unstained, unsullied), sem mácula (soilless, taintless, unblemished, unstained, unsullied), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), limpo (clean, clean-handed, cleanly, cleanly cut, cloudless, neat, net, orderly, precise, sanitary, spruce, straight, tidy, trim, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, well-done), imaculado (clean, immaculate, lily, snow, snowy, soilless, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unspotted, unstained, virgin). (various references) nepãtat (immaculate, stainless, taintless, unblemished, virgin), imaculat (immaculate, unblemished, unspotted). (various references) незапятнанный (clean, soilless, stainless, unblemished, unstained, unsullied, untarnished). (various references) neumrljan (unspotted, unstained), besprekoran (faultless, immaculate, impeccable, irreproachable, unimpeachable), čist (clean, clear, fine, fresh, limpid, mere, neat, net, plain, pure, sheer, tidy, unadulterated, unmixed, unspotted). (various references) inmaculado (immaculate, stainless, unsullied). (various references) fläckfritt. (various references) lekesiz (clean, flawless, immaculate, pure, stainless, taintless, unblemished, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished). (various references) чистий (absolute, austere, blank, bright, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, neat, net, pristine, pure, silvery, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), незаплямований (fair, immaculate, soilless, taintless). (various references) tinh tươm không có vết nhơ, không có vết; sạch sẽ, không có đốm. (various references) dilychwin (unsullied), difrycheulyd (immaculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | purus, Sturnus unicolor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spotless": spotlessly, spotlessness, spotlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Spotless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esporles, potless, sparless, spitless, spurless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spotless" (pronounced spÄ"tlus) |
| 4 | -t l u s | atlas, countless, cutlass, doubtless, ductless, effortless, flightless, fruitless, guiltless, heartless, limitless, listless, meatless, pilotless, pointless, relentless, restless, rootless, shiftless, stateless, tasteless, thoughtless, ticketless, warrantless, weightless, witless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, driverless, earless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, frictionless, frivolous, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pitiless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, remorseless, ridiculous, riskless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, stainless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, thankless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, windlass, windowless, wireless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: possets, topless. | |
-2 letters: estops, losses, pestos, posses, posset, ptoses, slopes, spelts, stoles, stopes, tosses. | |
-3 letters: estop, loess, lopes, loses, pelts, pesos, pesto, pests, plots, poets, poles, poses, posse, posts, septs, slept, sloes, slope, slops, slots, soles, spelt, spots, steps, stole, stope, stops, stoss, telos, toles, topes. | |
-4 letters: epos, lept, less, lest, lets, lope, lops. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: politesses, possiblest, spotlessly. | |
+3 letters: semipostals, symptomless, toplessness. | |
+4 letters: apostleships, blastospores, clothespress, hospitalises, pastoralness, personalists, plotlessness, politenesses, portlinesses, proselytises, proselytisms, spheroplasts, sportfulness, spotlessness. | |
+5 letters: ergastoplasms, escapologists, leptospiroses, leptospirosis, osteoplasties, plenteousness, pointlessness, possibilities, potablenesses, psephologists, siphonosteles, speleologists, spondylitises, streptolysins, toplessnesses, toxoplasmoses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Company Usage 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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