Word Meanings - IMPERFECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: IMPERFECT

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 , one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close. -- Imperfect consonances , chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth. -- Imperfect flower , a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray. -- Imperfect interval , one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth. -- Imperfect number , 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 , obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law. -- Imperfect power , 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 , a tense expressing past time and incomplete action.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPERFECT)

• Defective
• Faulty
• imperfect
• insufficient
• deficient
• wanting
• short
• Immature
• Unripe
• green
• crude
• unfinished
• undeveloped
• Lame
• Weak
• faltering
• hobbling
• hesitating
• ineffective
• impotent
• crippled
• halt
• defective
• Superficial
• Light
• slight
• showy
• external
• flimsy
• surface
• shallow
• smattering
• skin-deep

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPERFECT)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to IMPERFECT)

• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• LIGHTSOME
  1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DRUMMOND LIGHT
  A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.