intact
Use Intact in a sentence
adjective
1.
not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole; untouched; unblemished: The vase remained intact despite rough handling.
2.
not changed or diminished; not influenced or swayed: Despite misfortune, his faith is still intact.
3.
complete or whole, especially not castrated or emasculated.
4.
having the hymen unbroken; virginal.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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intact (ɪnˈtækt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| untouched or unimpaired; left complete or perfect | |
| [C15: from Latin intactus not touched, from tangere to touch] | |
| in'tactness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
intact
mid-15c., from L. intactus "untouched, uninjured," from in- "not" + tactus, pp. of tangere "to touch" (see tangent).
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Example sentences
To begin with, dinosaur skeletons are rarely found intact, and figuring out how scattered bones fit together is not always clear.
Those with their antennae intact had no problem orienting and flying south.
The skull was missing a lower jaw but had a nearly intact cranium.
She is no demimondaine, and she wants to be reasonably intact on her wedding night.
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