Definition of Imperfectly

1. Adverb. In an imperfect or faulty way. "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"

Exact synonyms: Amiss
Partainyms: Imperfect
Antonyms: Perfectly

Definition of Imperfectly

1. Adverb. In an imperfect manner or degree; not fully or completely. ¹

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Definition of Imperfectly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperfectly

imperfect subjunctive
imperfect tense
imperfectability
imperfectibility
imperfectible
imperfection
imperfections
imperfective
imperfective aspect
imperfectively
imperfectiveness
imperfectives
imperfectivization
imperfectivizations
imperfectly
imperfectness
imperfectnesses
imperfects
imperforable
imperforata
imperforate
imperforates
imperforation
imperia
imperial
imperial Japanese morning glory
imperial beard

Literary usage of Imperfectly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"6 and e) there is a very feeble, imperfectly-defined groove. As we have already remarked, the anterior end of the specimen is formed by the last septum (see ..."

2. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1886)
"UNPUBLISHED OR Imperfectly PUBLISHED HITTITE MONUMENTS. ... The monument was long ago imperfectly known by the description of Hamilton, who, ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"The structure of this species is still imperfectly known. Some of its principal elements, eg, the dorso-median, "clavicular," postero- ventro-lateral, ..."

4. Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Victor Langlois, Charles Seignobos, George Godfrey Berry (1904)
"But yet the harmony of several such facts, each proved imperfectly, yields a kind of certainty; the facts do not, in the strict sense of the word, prove, ..."

5. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. by John Locke (1805)
"... if the ideas they stand for be referred to standards without us, that either cannot be known at all, or can be known but imperfectly and uncertainly. §. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"strained to exercise caution, and to repress the desire to make larger ventures from the imperfectly beaten main road. Perhaps, after all, I may have fallen ..."

7. The Lancet (1842)
"... the latter being imperfectly and improperly described by (he term citrate of ira». It is very desirable that such a nomenclature should be adopted, ..."

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