Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being without fault. synonym: perfect.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish, flaw, or error; free from vice or offense; perfect in all respects: as, a faultless poem or picture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without fault; free from defect or error.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without fault or error

Etymologies

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fault +‎ -less

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Examples

  • (Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah 49: 11) “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

    Think Progress » Corporate Front Group Funded By Coal Industry Scorns Widow Of Mine Disaster: ‘Everyone Wants Free Money’ (Updated) 2010

  • By each mail steamer, in faultless English, typewritten on an American machine, a letter goes from Macao to Honolulu, in which, by admirable texts and precepts, Ah Chun advises his family to live in unity and harmony.

    Chun Ah Chun 2010

  • When Owen closed his eyes, he could see them doing it, one blonde and the other red-headed, climbing up and down walls in faultless scalene triangles, counting every step.

    365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world”

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world”

    Interview Thursday. Our 4th Male Guest: "I love to question things" - Unconventional Dammy 2009

  • It's a wonderful collection of texts, and just goes to show that a nation's most loved literature does not have to be printed on glossy paper, does not even have to couched in faultless English to find a lasting place in the heart of its people.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Indian interpreters do their stuff in faultless Anglo-Indian or Indo-Anglian ( "Actually her given name is Bhoomi, the earth, but her friends are calling her by this Boonyi cognomen which, sir, is the beloved tree of Kashmir").

    Hobbes in the Himalayas 2005

  • It's a wonderful collection of texts, and just goes to show that a nation's most loved literature does not have to be printed on glossy paper, does not even have to couched in faultless English to find a lasting place in the heart of its people.

    Read and Become Wise Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Indian interpreters do their stuff in faultless Anglo-Indian or Indo-Anglian ( "Actually her given name is Bhoomi, the earth, but her friends are calling her by this Boonyi cognomen which, sir, is the beloved tree of Kashmir").

    Hobbes in the Himalayas 2005

  • As I think of it today, China has awakened, and Dr. Liu has stood before us today and given in faultless English this great presentation.

    The Fight for Democracy in China 1942

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