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fleckless

/ˈflɛkləs/

fleckless adjective: without flecks, spots or blemishes.

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Adjective

fleckless (not comparable)

  1. Without flecks, spots or blemishes.
    • the kiss to the maiden’s lips came as a fleckless delight,1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville, Part 8
    • As he drove down Blackheath Hill that bright May morning, with the sky a fleckless blue and the world bathed in yellow sunshine, it seemed impossible that this terrible thing could happen.1921, Edgar Wallace, The Day of Uniting, Chapter 17
  2. Without blame; faultless.
    • My conscience will not count me fleckless.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 2”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

Origin of fleckless

From fleck + -less.

Words formed from fleckless

Questions about fleckless

What does fleckless mean?
Fleckless means without flecks, spots or blemishes.
What part of speech is fleckless?
Fleckless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fleckless?
Fleckless is pronounced /ˈflɛkləs/.

Words near fleckless in the dictionary

  1. fleckerls
  2. fleckers
  3. fleckiness
  4. flecking
  5. fleckings
  6. fleckless
  7. flecklessly
  8. flecklessness
  9. Flecknoe
  10. flecks
  11. flecky

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