different between imperfect vs heinous
imperfect
English
Etymology
From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- +? perfect.
Pronunciation
- (adjective, noun) IPA(key): /?m?p??(?)f?kt/, /?m?p??(?)f?kt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?mp?(?)?f?kt/
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.
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "Christ's Advent to Judgment"
- He […] stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.
- 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "Christ's Advent to Judgment"
- (grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
Related terms
- imperfection
Translations
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
Derived terms
- imperfective
Translations
Verb
imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)
- (transitive) to make imperfect
- 1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,[1]
- I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.
- 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 43,[2]
- Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.
- 1962, Alec Harman and Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West, Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126,[3]
- […] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […]
- 1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,[1]
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imper?fekt/
Adjective
imperfect m or n (feminine singular imperfect?, masculine plural imperfec?i, feminine and neuter plural imperfecte)
- imperfect
Declension
Antonyms
- perfect
Related terms
- imperfec?iune
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heinous
English
Etymology
From Old French haïneus (compare French haineux) from haïr (“to hate”), hadir (“to hate”) (compare Old French enhadir (“to become filled with hate”)), from Frankish *hattjan (“to hate”)
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?he?n?s/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hi?n?s/
- Rhymes: -e?n?s
Adjective
heinous (comparative more heinous, superlative most heinous)
- Totally reprehensible.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "heinous" is often applied: crime, act, sin, murder, offence.
Synonyms
- (totally reprehensible): abominable, horrible, odious
Antonyms
- unheinous (rare)
Derived terms
- unheinous
- heinous crime
Translations
Anagrams
- in house, in-house, inhouse
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