fallible, frail, imperfect, weak
(adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; âIâm only a fallible humanâ; âfrail humanityâ
imperfect
(adjective) not perfect; defective or inadequate; âhad only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilitiesâ; âimperfect mortalsâ; âdrainage here is imperfectâ
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
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
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
imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)
(transitive) to make imperfect
Source: Wiktionary
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
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and whatâs left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
