SPOTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spotless mean? 

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

1. completely neat and clean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOTLESS (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:

spotlessness (the state of being spotlessly clean)

 Context examples 

It was quite spotless in its cleanliness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sisters were both attired in spotless white.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There, such as were not as spotless as an angel might have the dispositions of a fiend.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"What a good girl you are, Amy!" said Jo, with a repentant glance from her own damaged costume to that of her sister, which was fresh and spotless still.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

John of Hordle, he thundered, you have shown yourself during the two months of your novitiate to be a recreant monk, and one who is unworthy to wear the white garb which is the outer symbol of the spotless spirit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All about me was spotless and bright—scoured floor, polished grate, and well-rubbed chairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Such a beautiful little house as it is, with everything so bright and new; with the flowers on the carpets looking as if freshly gathered, and the green leaves on the paper as if they had just come out; with the spotless muslin curtains, and the blushing rose-coloured furniture, and Dora's garden hat with the blue ribbon—do I remember, now, how I loved her in such another hat when I first knew her!—already hanging on its little peg; the guitar-case quite at home on its heels in a corner; and everybody tumbling over Jip's pagoda, which is much too big for the establishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)