Imperfect
[ɪm'pɜːfɪkt] or [ɪm'pɝfɪkt]
Definition
(adj.) not perfect; defective or inadequate; 'had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities'; 'imperfect mortals'; 'drainage here is imperfect' .
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Definition
(a.) Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
(a.) Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
(a.) Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
(n.) The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
(v. t.) To make imperfect.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Defective, incomplete, faulty, not entire.[2]. Weak, frail, erring.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PERFECT]
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Definition
adj. incomplete: defective: not fulfilling its design: liable to err.—adv. Imper′fectly.—ns. Imper′fectness Imperfec′tion.
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Examples
- It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But the separation was imperfect even them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This imperfect companionship, and our masquerade of union, are strangely dear to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I need not mention the case to you, my dear friend, but my account of the art would be imperfect without it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We know that all human actions are imperfect; but we do not therefore attribute them to the worse rather than to the better motive or principle. Plato. The Republic.
- He had caught an imperfect sound. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If they were turned out illegally by the violence of their master, the action by which they obtained redress was extremely imperfect. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Lily made a movement which showed her imperfect assimilation of this example. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She must, then, have been very imperfect; and had she seen Moore on his very worst side, she would probably have said this to herself and excused him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- First, By producing an imperfect habit and transition from the present impression to the related idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Where it fails of its end, it is only an imperfect means; and therefore can never acquire any merit from that end. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- An imperfect one,' Eugene acquiesced, with a sigh, 'but so we shall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Homoplastic structures are the same with those which I have classed, though in a very imperfect manner, as analogous modifications or resemblances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He was able to make out the mountains in the moon, the satellites of Jupiter in rotation, the spots on the revolving sun; but his telescope afforded only an imperfect view of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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