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Synonyms for imperfect
ɪmˈpɜr fɪktim·per·fect
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
imperfect
Synonyms:
bad, blemished, corrupt, corrupted, defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, fallible, faulty, incomplete, inferior, insufficient, marred, meager, perverted, poor, ruined, scant, short, spoiled, worthlessAntonyms:
absolute, accurate, blameless, complete, completed, consummate, correct, entire, faultless, finished, holy, ideal, immaculate, perfect, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled
Princeton's WordNet
progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tenseadjective
a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
Synonyms:
liberal, progressive, liberalist, imperfect tense, progressive tense, continuous tenseAntonyms:
unflawed, immaculate, idealized, errorless, cold, consummate, complete, uncorrupted, flawless, pluperfect, impeccable, perfectible, clean, down pat(p), undefiled, idyllic, clear, faultless, nonhuman, idealised, mastered, ideal, mint(a), down, perfectimperfectadjective
not perfect; defective or inadequate
"had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"
Synonyms:
fallible, frail, weakAntonyms:
clear, flawless, errorless, ideal, mastered, idealised, immaculate, mint(a), idealized, faultless, pluperfect, nonhuman, clean, consummate, down pat(p), cold, perfectible, down, impeccable, undefiled, complete, perfect, unflawed, idyllic, uncorruptedfallible, frail, imperfect, weakadjective
wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
"I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity"
Synonyms:
weak, watery, infirm, unaccented, weakly, rickety, debile, delicate, sapless, frail, washy, faint, decrepit, light, fallible, feeble, fragileAntonyms:
idealised, pluperfect, perfect, idealized, flawless, nonhuman, down pat(p), uncorrupted, undefiled, down, mint(a), idyllic, mastered, clear, errorless, consummate, clean, cold, faultless, impeccable, perfectible, unflawed, ideal, immaculate, complete
Editors Contribution
slightly damaged
the opposite of perfect ; to have fault
Submitted by acronimous on June 6, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
imperfectadjective
Synonyms:
defective, incomplete, faulty, not entireimperfectadjective
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "imperfect":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #613 | light | |
| #746 | short | |
| #841 | bad | |
| #1356 | perfect | |
| #1711 | poor | |
| #4110 | liberal | |
| #4436 | progressive | |
| #4981 | weak | |
| #8060 | incomplete | |
| #10242 | insufficient | |
| #11273 | defective | |
| #11658 | delicate | |
| #11969 | corrupt | |
| #14236 | fragile | |
| #15135 | faint | |
| #15200 | inferior | |
| #16930 | faulty | |
| #17142 | deficient | |
| #17335 | flawed | |
| #17868 | corrupted | |
| #18218 | ruined | |
| #20769 | worthless | |
| #21090 | imperfect | |
| #21584 | spoiled | |
| #21801 | weakly | |
| #28175 | perverted | |
| #30944 | deformed | |
| #31313 | feeble | |
| #32523 | frail | |
| #34653 | watery | |
| #37666 | scant | |
| #42006 | marred | |
| #42060 | meager | |
| #53689 | defaced | |
| #58852 | infirm | |
| #70794 | decrepit | |
| #80235 | fallible | |
| #81924 | rickety | |
| #94903 | washy | |
| #111694 | blemished | |
| #115087 | inchoate | |
| #232264 | unaccented | |
| #271548 | debile |
How to use imperfect in a sentence?
Let me remind us that we didn't get to understand influenza in two years. It's taken years to get to a uniform -- somewhat still imperfect but also useful -- process for what we do with flu, we need to remind ourselves and step back that we are very new in this pandemic, and we don't have the answers.
But it's not fully sufficient because it's imperfect. They're all imperfect layers.
The use of capital punishment is an instrument of imperfect justice that doesn't make us any safer, it is my hope that today's decision will mean that we never see another death sentence in our state.
When the economy is less of an issue and there's a lack of stability in the world, then security becomes a huge issue, we find ourselves in a situation with an imperfect but improving economy, but a lot of conflict in the world.
Everything we're going to do right now is imperfect. Just accept that right now, we don't know a lot of the things we wish we'd know, but what we do know and what is emerging here is that this country is going to be in the soup in just the next few weeks with so many cases and so many locations, that we're going to see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged.
Translations for imperfect
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- ناقص-غير كاملArabic
- imperfecte, imperfetCatalan, Valencian
- nedokonalýCzech
- ατελής, ελαττωματικός, παρατατικός, πλημμελής, ελλιπήςGreek
- imperfectoSpanish
- ناقصPersian
- epätäydellinen, imperfekti, sekunda, vajavainenFinnish
- imparfaitFrench
- imperfectoGalician
- tökéletlenHungarian
- imperfettoItalian
- 不完全Japanese
- nawe, takarepaMāori
- onvoltooid verleden tijdDutch
- imperfeitoPortuguese
- imperfectRomanian
- несовершенныйRussian
- imperfektSwedish
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