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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pristine \Pris"tine\, adjective [L. pristinus, akin to prior: cf. F. pristin. See {Prior}, adjective] Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pristine
adjective
1: completely free from dirt or contamination; "pristine mountain snow"
2: immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "pristine": aboriginal, ancestral, angelic, antepatriarchal, artless, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, blameless, bright, callow, central, chaste, childlike, clear, crucial, dewy, dovelike, earliest, elemental, elementary, embryonic, ever-new, evergreen, extra, faultless, first, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, green, guiltless, harmless, held back, held in reserve, held out, humanoid, immaculate, immature, in abeyance, in embryo, in hand, in ovo, in the clear, in the raw, inartificial, incorrupt, initial, innocent, intact, inviolate, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, mint, native, natural, neoteric, nestling, new, not guilty, offenseless, original, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prelapsarian, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, pure, put aside, put by, radical, raw, reproachless, reserve, rudimentary, sans reproche, saved, scatheless, seminal, sempervirent, sinless, spare, spotless, stored, suspended, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unbroken, unbruised, unconsumed, uncorrupted, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unfaded, unfallen, unfledged, unhandled, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unlapsed, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unpolluted, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unspent, unspoiled, unsullied, untapped, untarnished, untorn, untouched, untouched by evil, untried, untrodden, unused, unutilized, unwithered, unworn, vernal, virgin, virginal, waived, with clean hands, without reproach, young
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