spot ‧ less /ˈspɒtləs $ ˈspɑːt-/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: adjective : ↑ spotted , ↑ spotless , ↑ spotty ; verb : ↑ spot ; noun : ↑ spot ; adverb : ↑ spotlessly ]
1 . completely clean ⇨ pristine :
a spotless white handkerchief
By the time she had finished the house was absolutely spotless.
2 . if someone has a spotless ↑ reputation or record, people know or think they have never done anything bad:
a company whose reputation was spotless until this scandal broke
—spotlessly adverb :
The whole house was spotlessly clean.
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THESAURUS
▪ clean without any dirt or marks:
They need clean water to drink.
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I don’t have any clean clothes.
▪ pure water or air that is pure does not contain any dirt, pollution, or bacteria:
I breathed in the pure mountain air.
▪ sterile /ˈsteraɪl $ -rəl/ completely clean, with no bacteria, and therefore safe for medical or scientific use:
Place a sterile bandage on the wound.
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sterile needles
▪ spotless completely clean – used mainly about rooms and clothes:
Her kitchen is always spotless.
▪ pristine /ˈprɪstiːn/ completely clean and new-looking:
He wore a pristine white shirt.
▪ immaculate as clean and tidy as it is possible to be:
The soldiers’ uniforms have to be immaculate.
▪ spick and span [not before noun] informal clean and tidy, especially after having just been cleaned:
By the end of the day, the whole place was spick and span.