Impeccable: meaning, example and synonyms
Impeccableadj. Without any flaw or error; perfect.
Example
The restorer's impeccable work left no visible seam where the cracked fresco had been rejoined, even under raking light.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- flawless, faultless, perfect, immaculate
- Antonyms
- flawed, defective, imperfect, sloppy
- Memory tip
- Im (not) + peccare (to sin): not a single slip.
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Check yourself: Impeccable in context
The translator's rendering was ______: scholars who compared it line by line with the original found not a single error of grammar or meaning.
Answer: impeccable. Not a single error means impeccable. Ossified (rigid), desolate (bleak) and counterproductive (self-defeating) don't describe flawless work.
Even rivals conceded that the chemist's methods were ______, so their objections focused on how she interpreted results, not on how she had obtained them.
Answer: impeccable. Rivals could find no flaw in her methods: impeccable. Desolate (bleak), exhilarating (thrilling) and momentous (historic) don't mean free of error.