unspotted

[ uhn-spot-id ]

adjective

1. having no spots or stains; without spots; spotless:

   an unspotted breed of dog; unspotted trousers.

2. having no moral blemish or stigma:

   an unspotted reputation.

unspotted

/ ʌnˈspɒtɪd /

adjective

1. without spots or stains
2. (esp of reputations) free from moral stigma or blemish

Derived Forms

• unˈspottedness, noun

Other Words From

• un·spotted·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of unspotted¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; un- ¹, spotted

Example Sentences

I might as well have discovered a previously unspotted solar system.

From Slate

Russell Gidney, chair of the BDA's Welsh General Dental Practice Committee said delays could mean tooth decay, gum disease and cancer may go unspotted.

From BBC

Moreover, chips of rock at the bottom of one of the Waun Mawn sockets were a geologic match to that specific type of Stonehenge bluestone, a rock technically known as an unspotted dolerite.

From National Geographic

Stone Age farmers in Wales’s Preseli Hills built a great monument: They carved columns of unspotted dolerite, or bluestone, from a nearby quarry, then thrust them upright in a great circle aligned with the Sun.

From Science Magazine

Spots tended to make the mockingbirds hedge their bets and keep an egg, even if the color wasn’t “right,” Hanley and his colleagues report in the April issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. For example, the mockingbirds removed unspotted brown eggs—a “wrong” color and pattern—90% of the time.

From Science Magazine

Related Words

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• washed