IMMACULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immaculate mean? 

• IMMACULATE (adjective)
  The adjective IMMACULATE has 3 senses:

1. completely neat and clean

2. free from stain or blemish

3. without fault or error

  Familiarity information: IMMACULATE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMACULATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Completely neat and clean

Synonyms:

immaculate; speckless; spic; spic-and-span; spick; spick-and-span; spotless

Context example:

their spic red-visored caps

Similar:

clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)

Derivation:

immaculateness (the state of being spotlessly clean)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Free from stain or blemish

Synonyms:

immaculate; undefiled

Similar:

pure ((used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Without fault or error

Synonyms:

faultless; immaculate; impeccable; incorrupted

Context example:

an immaculate record

Similar:

perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)

 Context examples 

Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then, one day, came back to him through the mail ten of his immaculate machine-made storiettes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I'm going to have the little carriage, and Baptiste can drive, so you'll have nothing to do but hold your umbrella, and keep your gloves nice, returned Amy, with a sarcastic glance at the immaculate kids, which were a weak point with Laurie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the same instant Martin sprang for him, clutching him by the throat with one hand in such fashion that Mr. Ends' snow-white beard, still maintaining its immaculate trimness, pointed ceilingward at an angle of forty-five degrees.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Poor Jo, how she did glorify that plain man, as she sat knitting away so quietly, yet letting nothing escape her, not even the fact that Mr. Bhaer actually had gold sleeve-buttons in his immaculate wristbands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)