Perfect
['pɜːfɪkt] or ['pɝfɪkt]
Definition
(verb.) make perfect or complete; 'perfect your French in Paris!'.
(adj.) precisely accurate or exact; 'perfect timing' .
(adj.) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; 'a perfect circle'; 'a perfect reproduction'; 'perfect happiness'; 'perfect manners'; 'a perfect specimen'; 'a perfect day' .
Checker: McDonald--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
(a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
(a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
(n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
(a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Checker: Roy
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Complete, consummate, finished, excellent, capital, exquisite, without blemish, not defective, not deficient.[2]. Pure, holy, blameless, faultless, without sin.
v. a. Finish, complete, consummate, elaborate, make perfect, bring to perfection.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Consummate, complete, full, indeficient, immaculate, absolute, faultless,impeccable, infallible, unblemished, blameless, unexceptionable, mature, ripe
ANT:Incomplete, meagre, faulty, scant, short, deficient, defective, imperfect,peccable, fallible, blemished, marred, spoilt
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Definition
adj. done thoroughly or completely: completed: without blemish fault or error: having neither too much nor too little: entire very great: in the highest degree: possessing every moral excellence: completely skilled or acquainted: (gram.) expressing an act completed: (bot.) having both stamens and pistils hermaphrodite.—v.t. (or per-fekt′) to make perfect: to finish: to teach fully to make fully skilled in anything.—ns. Perfectā′tion (rare); Per′fecter; Perfect′i a body of Catharists in the 12th and 13th centuries of very strict lives; Perfectibil′ity quality of being made perfect.—adj. Perfect′ible that may be made perfect.—ns. Perfec′tion state of being perfect: a perfect quality or acquirement: the highest state or degree; Perfec′tionism (or Perfectibil′ity) the belief that man in a state of grace may attain to a relative perfection or a state of living without sin in this life; Perfec′tionist one who pretends to be perfect: one who thinks that moral perfection can be attained in this life: one of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86) which settled at Oneida in 1848 holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.—adj. Perfect′ive tending to make perfect.—advs. Perfect′ively Per′fectly in a perfect manner: completely: exactly: without fault.—n. Per′fectness state or quality of being perfect: completeness: perfection: consummate excellence.—Perfect insect the imago or completely developed form of an insect; Perfect metals (see Metal); Perfect number a number equal to the sum of all its divisors the number itself of course excepted as 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14.
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Examples
- The perfect impregnation of the water with gas, however, requires time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Hannah is a perfect saint. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He received the communication with perfect calmness, and acquiesced in its propriety. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Marshall says this one seems perfect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It will fill up the joining and form a perfect solder. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This means that definite coordinations of activities of the eyes in seeing and of the body and head in striking are perfected in a few trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And now, Adeimantus, is our State matured and perfected? Plato. The Republic.
- Still he felt full and complete, perfected. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When it was once perfected, it soon spread to all countries with very little change in form. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Eliott magazine pump rifle was perfected in Ilion, but afterwards made in New England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He made further improvements in 1849, and so far perfected the weapon that it had been used extensively in America before it was brought into notice in this country. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Ah, she could shriek with torment, he was so far off, and perfected, in another world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The plate is then returned to the engraving department, which completes the work, burnishing darks, engraving highlights, removing slight imperfections and otherwise perfecting the plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison in bringing out and perfecting his system of incandescent lighting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was very much occupied perfecting new commercial schemes, protecting his patents from a horde of pirates, and planning to introduce his invention into Europe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Henry had succeeded in perfecting the electromagnet, that dial and printing telegraphs were successfully produced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Fourdrinier having expended ￡60,000 in perfecting the machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Prior to 1871, inventions in this art were mainly directed to perfecting the structure of this primary gin. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Osborne perfects modern process of Photolithography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A dozen years ago, he perfects an invention (involving a very curious secret process) of great importance to his country and his fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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