IMPERFECT

fallible, frail, imperfect, weak

(adjective) 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”

imperfect

(adjective) not perfect; defective or inadequate; “had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities”; “imperfect mortals”; “drainage here is imperfect”

progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense

(noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

imperfect (comparative more imperfect, superlative most imperfect)

not perfect

Synonyms: defective, fallible, faultful, faulty

Antonyms: faultless, infallible, perfect

(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

Antonym: perfect

(taxonomy) known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

(obsolete) lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

(grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

Noun

imperfect (plural imperfects)

something having a minor flaw

(grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

Synonym: preterimperfect

Verb

imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)

(transitive) to make imperfect

Source: Wiktionary

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Im*per"fect, a. Etym: [L. imperfectus: pref. im- not + perfectus perfect: cf. F imparfait, whence OE. imparfit. See Perfect.]

1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak.

2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. Jer. Taylor.

3. Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective. Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created. Milton. Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. Pope. Imperfect arch, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew arch.

– Imperfect cadence (Mus.), one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close.

– Imperfect consonances (Mus.), chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth.

– Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray.

– Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth.

– Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an abundant number.

– Imperfect obligations (Law), obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law.

– Imperfect power (Math.), a number which can not be produced by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube.

– Imperfect tense (Gram), a tense expressing past time and incomplete action.

Im*per"fect, n. (Gram.)

Definition: The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.

Im*per"fect, v. t.

Definition: To make imperfect. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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