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irreproachable

adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,764 of 15,258neutral

Irreproachable means so correct that no fault can be found. Irreproachable conduct, an irreproachable record, irreproachable manners.

It is stronger than good, since it says that even a critic looking hard would come away empty-handed. It attaches to conduct and record rather than to skill.

Definitions of irreproachable

  1. 1adjectiveirreproachableSo correct that no fault can be found.C2

    “Her conduct throughout the inquiry was irreproachable.”

irreproachable is a quality.

Where it comes from

French irreprochable is in-, not, plus reprocher, to reproach, from Latin prope, near, by way of bringing a fault close.

  1. Middle French

    inreprochable

  2. French

    irréprochable

  3. English, today

    irreproachable

1630. Borrowed from French irréprochable, from Middle French inreprochable. See also ir + reproachable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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