Imperfect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not perfect.
  • adj. Grammar Of or being the tense of a verb that shows, usually in the past, an action or a condition as incomplete, continuous, or coincident with another action.
  • adj. Botany Having either stamens or a pistil only. Used of a flower.
  • adj. Law Not legally enforceable: an imperfect contract.
  • n. A piece of merchandise having a minor flaw that does not impair its use, usually sold at a discount.
  • n. Grammar The imperfect tense.
  • n. Grammar A verb in the imperfect tense.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not perfect
  • adj. unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
  • adj. Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
  • n. Something having a minor flaw
  • n. A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
  • adj. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
  • adj. 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. To make imperfect.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not perfect; lacking completeness, correctness, or excellence; falling short of a standard or ideal; defective; incomplete: as, an imperfect copy of a book; imperfect vision.
  • Characterized by or subject to defects; not completely good; frail; inadequate.
  • In gram., designating incomplete or continuous action, or action or condition conceived as in process when something else takes place, as in Latin amabat, French aimait, Greek ε%27λνε, as distinguished from the simple past forms (aoristic), without further implication, amavit, aima, ε%27λνσε.
  • In music. See the phrases below.
  • Unjust; unfair.
  • Weak, erring.
  • n. In grammar, an imperfect tense; a past continuous tense.
  • To render imperfect.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
  • adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
  • adj. not perfect; defective or inadequate
  • Equivalent
    human    imperfectible    broken    corrupted    faulty    flawed    irregular    corrupt    defective    blemished   
    Antonym
    absolute    complete    excellent    perfect   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deective    deficient    unperfect    faulty    bad    poor    incomplete    crude    rude    rudimentary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    incomplete    defective    inadequate    false    partial    uncertain    superficial    perfect    unsatisfactory    accurate