IMPERFECT
\ɪmpˈɜːfɛkt], \ɪmpˈɜːfɛkt], \ɪ_m_p_ˈɜː_f_ɛ_k_t]\
Definitions of IMPERFECT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
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Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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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.
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The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
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To make imperfect.
By Oddity Software
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Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
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Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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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.
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The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
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To make imperfect.
By Noah Webster.
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Wanting in completeness, correctness, or excellence; wanting in some organ necessary to usual activity; incomplete; indicating that tense in grammar which expresses past action as uncompleted or continuous at the time denoted.
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In grammar, the form of the verb denoting incomplete action.
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Imperfectly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Imperfectly.
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Incomplete: defective: not fulfilling its design: liable to err.
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IMPERFECTNESS, IMPERFECTION.
By Daniel Lyons
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Imperfectly.
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Not perfect; incomplete; defective.
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Indicating past action.
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The imperfect tense.
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Imperfectness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Thomas Sheridan