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Meaning of 'perfect' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Perfect [ a.]
- Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
- Well informed; certain; sure.
- Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
- To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
2 . Perfect [ n.]
- The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

Meaning of 'perfect' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . perfect [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make perfect or complete
Example in sentence:
  • perfect your French in Paris!
2 . perfect [ a]
Meaning (2):
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
Example in sentence:
  • a perfect circle;
  • a perfect day;
  • a perfect reproduction;
  • a perfect specimen;
  • perfect happiness;
  • perfect manners
3 . perfect [ s]
Meaning (3):
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Example in sentence:
  • a complete coward;
  • a consummate fool;
  • a double-dyed villain;
  • a perfect idiot;
  • a thorough nuisance;
  • a thoroughgoing villain;
  • an arrant fool;
  • gross negligence;
  • pure folly;
  • stark staring mad;
  • the unadulterated truth;
  • utter nonsense;
  • what a sodding mess
Meaning (4):
- precisely accurate or exact
Example in sentence:
  • perfect timing

Nearby Words:

per per- peract peracute peradventure peraeopod peragrate peragration perambulate perambulated

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