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): /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/, /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɛkt/ IPA(key): (verb) /ɪmpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/ === 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. (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action. Coordinate terms: perfect, (rare) infect (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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. == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin imperfectus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪm.pɛrˈfɛkt/, /ɪm.pərˈfɛkt/ Hyphenation: im‧per‧fect Rhymes: -ɛkt === Adjective === imperfect (comparative imperfecter, superlative imperfectst) imperfect (not perfect) Synonyms: onvolmaakt, gebrekkig Antonyms: perfect, volmaakt ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== == Romanian == === Etymology === From in- +‎ perfect. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /imperˈfekt/ === Adjective === imperfect m or n (feminine singular imperfectă, masculine plural imperfecți, feminine/neuter plural imperfecte) imperfect Antonym: perfect ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== imperfecțiune