PRISTINELY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

pristinely

adverb

as in immaculately

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Recent Examples of pristinely Speaking of sculpture, boxwood hedges can be pristinely pruned for a polished look. — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026 The Arabic harmonies, sung pristinely, are a clever pairing for a genre already so steeped in bleary-eyed mystique. — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026 Still, the new moon offers several nights of pristinely dark moonless skies, so grab your telescope and join us on a sightseeing tour of the mid-February night sky. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2026

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Few artists cultivated and maintained careers and images as immaculately as Dolly Parton.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026
Her bulging eyes, her piercing shrieks, her casual yet immaculately articulate cruelty all come together to form a cartoonish villain who’s also a commanding delight.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of immaculately

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Hoerner got Chicago’s hit on a grounder that Machado stopped with difficulty, but couldn’t transfer to his throwing hand cleanly enough to make a play.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
The context an engineer had while building a feature doesn’t travel cleanly to the person troubleshooting it in the field six months later.

— Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of cleanly

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Libertyville junior Madden Cotts spent the vast majority of his first full varsity season playing second base spotlessly and developing into the type of leadoff hitter that any team covets.

— Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
While the new studio was spotlessly clean and a testament to industrial planning, its design also underscored the inequality and brutal efficiency of working conditions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of spotlessly

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No item, however, was more fastidiously workshopped than the burger.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026
The bar was under the guidance of Sasha Petraske (of Milk & Honey fame) and so the cocktails could be relied upon to be exacting, disarmingly simple, and fastidiously precise.

— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of fastidiously

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