| 单词 | immaculate |
| 释义 | immaculate (once / 1800 pages) adj Immaculate means spotless, pure, and clean as fresh snow on a far-off mountain. Only obsessive cleaners can keep immaculate homes, but it’s a goal we can strive for, like that far-off mountain. Immaculate literally means without a spot or a stain. We can use immaculate to describe physical things, like bathrooms or kitchens. But we also use the word metaphorically to describe honor or purity — in the Catholic church, being immaculate means being "free from sin," like the Virgin Mary. Or someone with a pure, exact singing voice could be described as having immaculate pitch. If your home team plays a perfect game, you could say their performance was immaculate. WORD FAMILYimmaculate: immaculately, immaculateness USAGE EXAMPLESThe piano’s tone is pristine, the articulation clean, the balance between the hands immaculate, the overall tenor both spirited and rapt. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) Beyer Blinder Belle, the New York architecture firm, performed an act of thoughtful and immaculate preservation. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) The greatest challenges fell to tenor Robert Murray, who sang Gerontius with beautiful timbre, expressive depth, and immaculate diction. Seattle Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1adj completely neat and clean the apartment was immaculate in her immaculate white uniform Syn speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless clean free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits 2adj free from stain or blemish Syn undefiled pure (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless 3adj without fault or error timing and technique were immaculate an immaculate record Syn faultless, impeccable perfect being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish |
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