pristine
in its original, unspoiled, and pure condition
Word origin: From Latin pristinus, former or original.
Pristine in a sentence
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The remote valley remained pristine, untouched by development.
The cave's pristine paintings had been sealed from the air for millennia.
Using “pristine” well
Pristine means either spotlessly clean or unchanged from an original state; context decides which. It implies that nothing has spoiled the subject.
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