per´fect|ness

per´fect|ness
per|fect «adjective, noun. PUR fihkt; verb. puhr FEHKT», adjective, verb, noun.
–adj.
1. having no faults; not spoiled at any point; without defect: »

a perfect spelling paper, a perfect apple, a perfect life. Perfect work shows great care.

SYNONYM(S): faultless, impeccable.
2. a) completely skilled; expert: »

a perfect golfer. Our battle is more full of names than yours, Our men more perfect in the use of arms (Shakespeare).

SYNONYM(S): accomplished. b) thoroughly learned or acquired: »

The lesson is but plain, And once made perfect, never lost again (Shakespeare).

3. having all its parts there; whole; complete: »

The set was perfect; nothing was missing or broken.

SYNONYM(S): intact.
4. exact: »

a perfect copy, a perfect circle.

SYNONYM(S): precise.
5. entire; utter; total: »

perfect quiet. He was a perfect stranger to us.

6. pure; unmixed; unalloyed: »

perfect blue.

7. Grammar. a) showing an action or event completed at the time of speaking or at the time spoken of. b) designating a verb form or verb phrase with such a meaning. Three perfect tenses in English are: present perfect (I have done), past perfect (I had done), and future perfect (I will have done).
8. Botany. having both stamens and pistils: »

a perfect flower.

9. Music. having to do with the intervals or original consonances of unison, a fourth, fifth, and octave, as contrasted with the major intervals of a third and sixth.
10. Mathematics. (of a whole number) equal to the sum of its divisors.
11. Obsolete. assured; certain: »

Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon The deserts of Bohemia? (Shakespeare).

12. Obsolete. satisfied; contented: »

Might we but have that happiness…we should think ourselves forever perfect (Shakespeare).

–v.t.
1. to make perfect; remove all faults from; add the finishing touches to; improve: »

to perfect an invention. The artist is perfecting his picture.

2. to carry through; complete; finish: »

to perfect a plan;…the system of religious persecution commenced by Charles, and perfected by Philip (John L. Motley).

3. to make fully skilled: »

to perfect oneself in an art.

–n. Grammar.
1. the perfect tense.
2. a verb form or verb phrase in the perfect tense. Have eaten is the perfect of eat. Abbr: perf.
[alteration (influenced by Latin) of Middle English parfite < Old French parfit < Latin perfectus completed, past participle of perficere < per- thoroughly + facere make, do]
per|fect´er, noun.
per´fect|ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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