| ADJECTIVE | all | imperfect | not perfect |
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| all | imperfect, fallible, frail, weak | wanting in moral strength, courage, or will | |
| NOUN | relation | imperfect, progressive, progressive tense, imperfect tense, continuous tense | a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going |
| Sounds | ihmper'fihkt | |
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| Rhymes | addict ... verdict: 24 rhymes with ihkt... | |
| Meaning | not perfect; defective or inadequate / inadequate. | |
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| Attribute of | perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra | The state of being without a flaw or defect / defect / defect / defect |
| Narrower | blemished, flawed | Having a blemish or flaw |
| broken | imperfectly spoken or written | |
| corrupt, corrupted | Containing errors or alterations | |
| defective, faulty | Having a defect | |
| imperfectible | capable of being made imperfect | |
| irregular | Falling below the manufacturer's standard | |
| See also | blemished | marred by imperfections |
| broken | physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | |
| Opposite | perfect | complete of its kind and without defect / defect / defect / defect or blemish |
| Spanish | defectuoso, imperfecto | |
| Catalan | imperfecte | |
| Nouns | imperfectness | the state or an instance of being imperfect |
| Adverbs | imperfectly | in an imperfect or faulty way |
| Meaning | Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings. | |
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| Synonyms | fallible, frail, weak | |
| Broader | human | Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings |
| Spanish | débil, falible, frágil, imperfecto | |
| Catalan | dèbil, fal·lible, frágil, imperfecte | |
| Nouns | imperfectness | the state or an instance of being imperfect |
| Meaning | A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going. | |
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| Synonyms | progressive, progressive tense, imperfect tense, continuous tense | |
| Narrower | future progressive, future progressive tense | A progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future |
| past progressive, past progressive tense | A progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past | |
| present progressive, present progressive tense | A tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance | |
| Broader | tense | A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
| Spanish | imperfecto | |
| Catalan | imperfet | |
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