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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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snide
English
Etymology
Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting”). More at snithe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sna?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Adjective
snide (comparative snider, superlative snidest)
- Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
- Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
Translations
References
Noun
snide (countable and uncountable, plural snides)
- (countable) An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a cheat.
- (uncountable) counterfeit money
Anagrams
- Denis, Sinde, denis, dines, enids, nides, snied
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