faultless

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English fault

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Middle English -les

English -less

English faultless

From fault + -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

faultless (comparative more faultless, superlative most faultless)

1. Without fault; free from defect or error.

   faultless effort

   faultless performance

Synonyms

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Antonyms

• defective, faulty, faultful, fallible

Derived terms

• faultlessly
• faultlessness

Related terms

• fault-finding

Translations

without fault

• Bulgarian: безпогрешен (bg) (bezpogrešen)
• Catalan: impecable (ca), perfecte (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無錯誤的 / 无错误的 (zh) (wú cuòwù de), 無缺點的 / 无缺点的 (zh) (wú quēdiǎn de)

• Danish: fejlfri (da)
• Dutch: loepzuiver (nl), foutloos (nl)
• Esperanto: senerara
• Estonian: veatu, laitmatu (et)
• Finnish: moitteeton (fi), virheetön (fi)
• French: impeccable (fr)
• German: fehlerfrei (de)
• Hindi: निर्दोष (hi) (nirdoṣ)
• Hungarian: hibátlan (hu)
• Icelandic: lýtalaus
• Ido: sendefekta (io)
• Igbo: enweghị ntụpọ
• Irish: gan on
• Italian: infallibile (it)
• Japanese: 欠点のない (ja) (ketten no nai) (attributive), 失敗のない (ja) (shippai no nai) (attributive), 無欠の (ja) (muketsu no), 無傷の (ja) (mukizu no)
• Korean: 과실이없는 (gwasirieomneun)
• Lao: ບໍ່ແຄ້ວ (bǭ khǣu)
• Latin: ēmendātus
• Lithuanian: beydis
• Polish: bezbłędny (pl), nieskazitelny (pl), bezusterkowy
• Portuguese: impecável (pt), perfeito (pt)
• Russian: безупре́чный (ru) (bezupréčnyj), безоши́бочный (ru) (bezošíbočnyj), безукори́зненный (ru) (bezukoríznennyj)
• Sanskrit: निर्दोष (sa) (nirdoṣa)
• Spanish: impecable (es), perfecto (es), intachable (es), sin tacha
• Swedish: felfri (sv)
• Tamil: குற்றமற்றவர்களே (kuṟṟamaṟṟavarkaḷē)
• Telugu: తప్పులేని (te) (tappulēni)
• Tibetan: སྐྱོན་མེད (skyon med)
• Urdu: نردوش