Definitions

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

  • adjective Perfectly clean.
  • adjective Free from flaw or imperfection; impeccable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Free from spots, foul matter, or discoloration.
  • Free from blemish, fault, or reproach; immaculate; pure.
  • Guiltless; innocent: followed by of.
  • Synonyms Unspotted, blameless, unblemished, irreproachable, untainted, untarnished.

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

  • adjective Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent.

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

  • adjective Exceptionally clean
  • adjective Impeccable and free from blemish

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

  • adjective completely neat and clean

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English spotles, equivalent to spot +‎ -less.

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Examples

  • If a soap powder is given a new additive that makes things glow, you call it "whiter than white" and link it to beaming kids in spotless England football shirts who later go on to become Michael Owen.

    Archive 2004-06-01 Jonathan 2004

  • If a soap powder is given a new additive that makes things glow, you call it "whiter than white" and link it to beaming kids in spotless England football shirts who later go on to become Michael Owen.

    How Advertising Works Part 356 Jonathan 2004

  • The kitchen was in spotless order, and she sat down on a stiff-backed chair by the window to wait for her brother.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • Her little house was in spotless, speckless order from top to bottom.

    Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

  • Congratulate the man who, leaving to his family, friends and country a name spotless, untarnished, beloved of nations, to be repeated in foreign tongues and by sparkling seas, has died in the bright and blessed hope of everlasting life.

    Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

  • Then, in spotless order again, she went back to Lewis and inquired where Logan was at work.

    Melbourne House 1907

  • Gowned in spotless white, her slender form lost in a large armchair, she sat opposite him, dandling the baby in her arms.

    Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • In the early morning my eyes always open on the Governor's handsome Mohammedan servant in spotless white muslin and red head-dress and girdle, bringing a tray with tea and bananas.

    The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

  • She would have given that and much more, for her love, as she would freely give all for him and even for his memory, if he were dead, and if by some unimaginable circumstances her ruin before the world could keep his name spotless, and his glory unsullied.

    In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid 1881

  • The annunciation lilies (L. candidum) – old, classical, but too pure or too something for most modern gardens – are sweet after their own rare fashion, gleaming out in spotless white; and to my great pleasure, my new L. auratum shews three buds that promise full developement.

    Gardening by Myself 1872

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