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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