imperfect
IPA: ɪmpˈɝfɪkt
noun
- something having a minor flaw
- (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
verb
- (transitive) to make imperfect
adjective
- not perfect
- (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- (obsolete) lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
- (grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
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Examples of "imperfect" in Sentences
- The manuscript is in imperfect condition.
- The evolution of imperfect floral mimicry.
- In the imperfect they use the endings of the weak verbs.
- My preference for the Kantian and imperfect peace remains unshaken.
- So in the former circumstance he is weak, and in the later imperfect.
- The two forms of the imperfect subjunctive are largely interchangeable.
- The conditional endings correspond to those of the imperfect indicative.
- The imperfect carrying out of this policy forms the history of the land.
- In the present tense they use the endings of the strong verbs' imperfect.
- A calendar is an inherently imperfect way of modelling the motion of the earth.
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