perfect
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). The spelling was modified in the 15th century to conform to its Latin etymon. Doublet of parfait, perfecto, and perfectus.
Displaced native Old English fulfremed.
Inflected forms:
form: perfecter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more perfect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: perfectest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most perfect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perfite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: perfight
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pf.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: poifect
pos: adj
tags: alternative
humorous
pronunciation-spelling
form: perfects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perfite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: perfight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pf.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: poifect
pos: noun
tags: alternative
humorous
pronunciation-spelling
form: perfects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perfecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perfected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perfected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: perfite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: perfight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pf.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: poifect
pos: verb
tags: alternative
humorous
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: Fitting its definition precisely.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a perfect circle
gloss: Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: That bucket with the hole in the bottom is a poor bucket, but it is perfect for watering plants.
gloss: Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The gymnast performed a perfect somersault.
I think I'm in love—I can't stop thinking about her. She's perfect!
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
gloss: Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The expert forger made a perfect copy of the victim's driver's license
gloss: Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Practice makes perfect.
word-perfect, letter-perfect
gloss: Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
usually
examples: Our Battaile is more full of Names then yours, / Our Men more perfect in the vse of Armes, / Our Armor all as strong, our Cause the best
gloss: Excellent and delightful in all respects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a perfect day
And was the day of my delight
⁠As pure and perfect as I say?
⁠The very source and fount of Day
Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
gloss: Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Marke the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace
gloss: Representing a completed action.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: 6 is perfect because the sum of its proper divisors, 1, 2, and 3, which is 6, is equal to the number itself.
gloss: Equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: perfect fifth
gloss: Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a perfect Manhattan
a perfect Rob Roy
gloss: Well informed; certain; sure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
usually
examples: I am perfect that the Pannonians and Dalmatians for their liberties are now in arms.
gloss: Innocent, guiltless; without blemish.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
usually
examples: My fault being nothing—as I have told you oft— / But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd / Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline / I was confederate with the Romans: so / Follow'd my banishment
My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.
gloss: Sane, of sound mind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
usually
examples: Pray, do not mock me. / I am a very foolish fond old man, / Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less / And, to deal plainly, / I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
gloss: The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
pos: noun
gloss: A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
pos: noun
examples: Awarded for scoring all Perfects in the Dominator rank!
[…] a table of all the ratings that each player has achieved, giving you several scoring options based on player feedback (I simply record the number of perfects).
gloss: A leader of the Cathar movement.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To make perfect; to improve or hone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I am going to perfect this article.
You spend too much time trying to perfect your dancing.
gloss: To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
pos: verb
examples: perfect an appeal
perfect an interest
perfect a judgment
Synonyms: faultless
infallible
hermaphroditic
preterperfect
Antonyms: flawed
faulty
faultful
fallible
imperfect
Related words: perfectation
perfecter
perfectible
Derived words: allperfect
all-perfect
conditional perfect
frame perfect
frame-perfect
future perfect continuous
future perfect progressive
hemiperfect
heptaperfect
hyperperfect
imperfect
inch-perfect
Insta-perfect
letter-perfect
letter perfect
let the perfect be the enemy of the good
make the perfect the enemy of the good
most-perfect magic square
multiperfect
nobody's perfect
nonperfect
note-perfect
omniperfect
past perfect continuous
past perfect progressive
perfect all-kill
perfectamundo
perfect authentic cadence
perfect auxiliary
perfect binding
perfect-bound
perfect cadence
perfect chord
perfect competition
perfect crime
perfect cube
perfect field
perfect fifth
perfect fourth
perfect game
perfect gold standard test
perfect infinitive
perfect information
perfect interval
perfection
perfectionist
perfect is the enemy of good
perfect is the enemy of good enough
perfectitude
perfective
perfect market
perfect metal
perfectness
perfect number
perfect octave
perfectoid
perfector
perfect participle
perfect passive participle
perfect pitch
perfect power
perfect price discrimination
perfect rhyme
perfect set
perfect square
perfect storm
perfect stranger
perfect system
perfect time
perfect triad
perfect twelfth
perfect unison
perfect victim
perfect wave
picture-perfect
picture perfect
pitch-perfect
pitch perfect
pixel-perfect
practice makes perfect
present perfect continuous
present perfect progressive
purrfect
quasiperfect
rough perfect
self-perfect
semiperfect
s-perfect
subperfect
superperfect
the perfect is the enemy of the good
triperfect
ultraperfect
unperfect
v-perfect
word-perfect
perfectability
unperfected
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mükəmməl
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qüsursuz
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nöqsansız
lang: Azerbaijani
word: eyibsiz
lang: Belarusian
word: даскана́лы
roman: daskanály
lang: Bulgarian
word: безупречен
roman: bezuprečen
lang: Catalan
word: perfecte
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 完美
roman: wánměi
lang: Maore Comorian
word: -kamilifu
lang: Dutch
word: volmaakt
lang: Dutch
word: perfect
lang: Esperanto
word: perfekta
lang: Finnish
word: täydellinen
lang: Finnish
word: virheetön
lang: French
word: parfait
lang: Georgian
word: სრულყოფილი
roman: srulq̇opili
lang: Georgian
word: უზადო
roman: uzado
lang: German
word: perfekt
lang: German
word: vollkommen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍉𐌾𐌹𐍃
roman: fullatōjis
lang: Hungarian
word: kifogástalan
lang: Hungarian
word: hibátlan
lang: Indonesian
word: sempurna
lang: Japanese
word: 完璧な
roman: kanpeki na
lang: Japanese
word: 全い
roman: mattai
lang: Korean
word: 완벽하다
roman: wanbyeokhada
lang: Latin
word: perfectus
lang: Lithuanian
word: tobulas
lang: Māori
word: paruhi
lang: Māori
word: pāruhiruhi
lang: Māori
word: takarepakore
lang: Māori
word: hauora
lang: Old English
word: fulfremed
lang: Persian
word: پرفکت
roman: perfekt
lang: Polish
word: perfekcyjny
lang: Portuguese
word: perfeito
lang: Russian
word: безупре́чный
roman: bezupréčnyj
lang: Russian
word: безукори́зненный
roman: bezukoríznennyj
lang: Sicilian
word: pricisupirfettu
lang: Sicilian
word: latinu
lang: Spanish
word: perfecto
lang: Swedish
word: felfri
lang: Swedish
word: perfekt
lang: Tamil
word: பக்கா
roman: pakkā
lang: Thai
word: ไม่ผิดพลาด
roman: mâi pìt plâat
lang: Thai
word: ไร้ตำหนิ
roman: rái-dtam-nì
lang: Ukrainian
word: доскона́лий
roman: doskonályj
lang: Vietnamese
word: hoàn hảo
lang: Welsh
word: perffaith