1. in its original condition; unspoiled: "pristine copies of an early magazine"
▪ clean and fresh as if new; spotless:"a pristine white shirt"
Word Originmid 16th century (in the sense ‘original, former, primitive and undeveloped’): from Latin pristinus ‘former’. The senses ‘unspoilt’ and ‘spotless’ date from the 1920s.
