Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no flaws; perfect. synonym: perfect.
  • adjective Not capable of sinning or not liable to sin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not liable to err; not subject to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
  • adjective Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without fault or error
  • adjective not capable of sin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin impeccābilis : in-, not; see in– + peccāre, to sin; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin impeccabilis ("not liable to sin"), from im- ("not") + peccare ("to err, to sin").

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  • the word impeccable, is, impeccable.

    August 13, 2011