pristine
/ˈprɪˌstin/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.
adj
Example Sentences
- "The beach back is in pristine condition after a council-led cleanup."
- "Fire fueled with gasoline Life is beautiful, the world is pristine We have been bound unseen The walls of existence remain unclean"
- "Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal."
- "This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007)."
Etymology
From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin prīstinus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pristin, prīstinus, πρίστις
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈprɪˌstin/
Inflected Forms
more pristine (comparative)
most pristine (superlative)