The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immaculate \Im*mac"u*late\, a. [L. immaculatus; pref. im- not + maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot, stane, fr. macula spot. See Mail armor.] Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.
Were but my soul as pure
From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold
One more immaculate.
--Denham.
Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain.
--Shak.
Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- Im*mac"u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac"u*late*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an immaculate manner; in a manner free of stain or blemish; without being defiled. 2 In a manner free of error; in a perfect or flawless manner.
WordNet
adv. in an immaculate manner; "gone was the casually dressed Canadian she had thought a backwoodsman--this man was immaculately tailored"
Usage examples of "immaculately".
Colonel Baraka rose from the table, a trim, immaculately dressed man in light tan battle uniform.
It was the biggest home Barry had seen in Bonita Vista, and it sat on an immaculately groomed lot, surrounded on three sides by a virtual wall of dense vegetation.
He wore dark green cavalla trousers like a proper trooper, but his shirt was the loose linen of a Plainsman, immaculately clean.
His mask kept the air warm and defogged itself immaculately, a breathing that those who spent their lives in the City never experienced, sharp and cold and cleansing.
He wore immaculately polished black boots and loose linen trousers under a scarlet djellaba, and was smoking a black cigarillo.
Tiresias managed to look at him, at his immaculately white kabuki dollface and was not shocked.
She had changed into drapey, black satin slacks and an immaculately tailored cream silk blouse.
He was a fairly small man, immaculately dressed, but beginning to show his age, with thinning gray hair and heavy owllike glasses.
Weldon was young and handsome, immaculately turned out in spite of the Tripolitan heat.
Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.
But his sunken cheeks and the dark bruising around his eyes, the blueness of those tight-drawn lips, the sickly pallor of his skin, almost translucent now, so that the network of tiny broken veins beneath was clearly visible, his thin hair - once immaculately groomed, now straggly and brittle, falling forward over his waxen forehead - and the stubborn stoop of his shoulders, not to mention the palsied quivering of his limbs - all this only mocked the old image, reduced him to a hideous parody of the man who'd enthralled i thousands of similar bigots with his Fascist oratory before the outbreak of the second - and last - world war, a man who'd marched at the head of a neo-Nazi army, subordinate only to Sir Oswald Mosley.
Looking from her to the immaculately dressed medical folk - even the patient had on fine threads and was bundled in the amazingly coloured pelts that no animal on Petaybee ever grew, Adak was sadly aware of a vast difference in style and appearance between Petaybeans and visitors.
He was just as, colorful and always pretty, with his beautiful white pavilion in the center of the municipal park and its paving stone streets surrounded by businesses and houses immaculately taken care of.
Neither clinical nor utilitarian, however, was the motif Benson had adopted for the decoration of the one bulkhead in his surgery completely free from surgical or medical equipment of any kind--a series of film stills in color featuring every cartoon character I'd ever seen, from Popeye to Pinnochio, with, as a two-foot-square centerpiece, an immaculately cravatted Yogi Bear industriously sawing off from the top of a wooden sign post the first word of a legend that read: "Don't feed the bears.
As his callers entered the room, Underknuckle, a lean, high-shouldered man with bushy white hair, hollow, purplish cheeks, and a lumpy, clay-colored nose, his immaculately tailored midafternoon semiformal uniform awry, spun in his hip-u-matic contour chair, causing the power-swivel mechanism to whine in protest.