FAULTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faultless mean? 

• FAULTLESS (adjective)
  The adjective FAULTLESS has 1 sense:

1. without fault or error

  Familiarity information: FAULTLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAULTLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

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 

So far your conduct has been faultless, and they were quite mistaken who wished you to do otherwise.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There was novelty in the scheme, and as, with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless, a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"I flatter myself," replied Elinor, "that even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase, you will hereafter find your own house as faultless as you now do this."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The metre marched along on perfect feet, and the rhyme pounded a longer and equally faultless rhythm, but the glow and high exaltation that he felt within were lacking.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She listened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that Tom Brown was a brick, regardless of the improper form of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle tank, she went with an alacrity which caused Mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bearlike but affectionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I know her disposition to be as sweet and faultless as your own, but the influence of her former companions makes her seem—gives to her conversation, to her professed opinions, sometimes a tinge of wrong.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In Mrs. Dashwood's estimation he was as faultless as in Marianne's; and Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity, in which he strongly resembled and peculiarly delighted her sister, of saying too much what he thought on every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Maria was indeed the pride and delight of them all—perfectly faultless—an angel; and, of course, so surrounded by admirers, must be difficult in her choice: but yet, as far as Mrs. Norris could allow herself to decide on so short an acquaintance, Mr. Rushworth appeared precisely the young man to deserve and attach her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)