perfect

IPA: pɝfˈɛkt

noun

  • (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
  • (video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
  • (historical, Christianity) A leader of the Cathar movement.

verb

  • (transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.
  • (law) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

adjective

  • Fitting its definition precisely.
  • Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
  • Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
  • Exact, correctly reflecting the original in all aspects. (of a copy)
  • Having thoroughly learned or memorized a part. (of an actor)
  • (obsolete outside set of phrases) Of a person: having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.
  • (obsolete) Fully trained or very knowledgeable; highly skilled
  • Excellent and delightful in all respects.
  • Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
  • (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
  • (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
  • (botany) Of flowers: having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
  • (mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
  • (mathematical analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
  • (music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
  • (of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
  • (obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.
  • (obsolete) Innocent, guiltless; without blemish.
  • (obsolete) Sane, of sound mind.
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Examples of "perfect" in Sentences

  • Man is not perfectible.
  • The setting was perfect.
  • Jesus was perfect and blameless.
  • The team is in a perfect harmony.
  • Fecundation is not always perfect.
  • The aim is the perfection of character.
  • The good is not the enemy of the perfect.
  • Humans are not constituted to be perfectible.
  • Sure quality isn't perfect, but I think rareness and difficulty compensates.
  • It requires some perfecting in detail; but it is in every reasonable sense perfectible.

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