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Definition of Perfect

1. Noun. A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect).

2. Verb. Make perfect or complete. "Perfect your French in Paris!"

3. Adjective. Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish. "A perfect day"

4. Adjective. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers. "The unadulterated truth"

5. Adjective. Precisely accurate or exact. "Perfect timing"

Definition of Perfect

1. a. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.

2. n. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

3. v. t. To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

Definition of Perfect

1. lacking fault or defect; of an extreme kind [adj -FECTER, -FECTEST] / to make perfect [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: perfect

Medical Definition of Perfect

1. 1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. "My strength is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. Xii. 9) "Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun." (Shak) "I fear I am not in my perfect mind." (Shak) "O most entire perfect sacrifice!" (Keble) "God made thee perfect, not immutable." (Milton) 2. Well informed; certain; sure. "I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms." (Shak) 3. Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; said of flower. Perfect cadence, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave. Perfect number, a tense which expresses an act or state completed. Synonym: Finished, consummate, complete, entire, faultless, blameless, unblemished. Origin: OE. Parfit, OF. Parfit, parfet, parfait, F. Parfait, L. Perfectus, p.p. Of perficere to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see Per-) + facere = to make, do. See Fact. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfect

pereon pereons pereopod pereopods peres Pereskia Pereskia aculeata perestroika perestroikas Perez' sign

Perez reflex pere david's deer Pere Jacques Marquette perfay perfect (current term) perfect (current term) perfect(a) perfecta perfectability perfectas

perfected perfecter perfecters perfectest perfecti perfectibility perfectible perfecting perfection perfection

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