immaculate
pronunciation
How to pronounce immaculate in British English:
UK [ɪˈmækjələt]
How to pronounce immaculate in American English:
US [ɪˈmækjəlɪt]
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- Adjective:
- completely neat and clean
- free from stain or blemish
- without fault or error
Word Origin
- immaculate
- immaculate: [15] A macula in Latin was a ‘spot’ or ‘stain’ (as well as a ‘hole in a net’, which gave English the mail of chain mail). Hence anything that was immaculātus (an adjective formed with the negative prefix in-) was ‘spotless’ – ‘perfect’.=> chainmail
- immaculate (adj.)
- early 15c., "free from mental or moral pollution, pure," from a figurative use of Latin immaculatus "unstained," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + maculatus "spotted, defiled," past participle of maculare "to spot," from macula "spot, blemish." The literal sense of "spotlessly clean or neat" in English is first attested 1735. Immaculate Conception is late 15c., from Middle French conception immaculée (late 15c.); declared to be an article of faith in 1854.
Example
- 1. His figures have rich associations , immaculate shapes and luxurious materials .
- 2. So for this year of life , my clothes will need to be immaculate .
- 3. Japan is a country with immaculate service , good food , beautiful countryside and excellent beaches .
- 4. Away from the immaculate lawns and glistening marble staircase of the white house , fuyang 's public buildings are mostly sad and decrepit ; the schools are particularly run-down .
- 5. Chinese fashionistas are displacing those immaculate japanese women in their burberry scarves as the world 's leading consumers of luxury goods .