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発音

• IPA: /ˈpɹɪstiːn/, /pɹɪsˈtiːn/, (uncommon) /pɹɪsˈtaɪn/, /ˈpɹɪstaɪn/, (obsolete) /ˈpɹɪstɪn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈprɪˌstin/, /prɪˈstin/
• ハイフネーション: pris‧tine
• 韻: -iːn, -aɪn, -ɪstin

形容詞

pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)

1. Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

   Synonyms: immaculate, spotless, unsullied, unspoiled, pure, untouched

   Antonyms: corrupted, tainted, dirty, polluted, spoiled

   The beach back is in pristine condition after a council-led cleanup.

   • 2020, The Acacia Strain, “Solace and Serenity”, in Slow Decay:

     Fire fueled with gasoline
     Life is beautiful, the world is pristine
     We have been bound unseen
     The walls of existence remain unclean

2. Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     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.

3. Perfect.

派生語

語源 2

From Ancient Greek πρίστις (prístis, “saw, sawfish”).

発音

• 韻: -aɪn

形容詞

pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)

1. Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
   • 2008, J.M. Whitty with N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn, and S.C. Peverell, “Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, archived from the original on 1 June 2012:

     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).

派生語

• pristane
• pristanoyl

参照

アナグラム

• spiriten, Petrinis, enspirit

形容詞

prīstine

1. vocative masculine singular of prīstinus