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Synonyms for imperfect

Grammar : Adj
Spell : im-pur-fikt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɜr fɪkt

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Définition of imperfect

Origin :
  • mid-14c., imperfite, from Old French imparfait, from Latin imperfectus "unfinished, incomplete," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + perfectus (see perfect). Replaced mid-16c. by the Latin form. Related: Imperfectly.
  • adj flawed
Example sentences :
  • Yet how imperfect a glimpse do we obtain of him, through the medium of this, or any of his letters!
  • Extract from : « A Book of Autographs » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The best of us are imperfect judges of the happiness of others.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Well, well, they shall be as imperfect as you like—any thing to please you.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • In proportion as the union is incomplete, the derived life is imperfect.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • The teaching may have been, as no doubt it was, of a very rude and imperfect sort; but it was done with a will.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
  • Extract from : « The Lyric » by John Drinkwater
  • Sometimes there is evidence of imperfect taste, or of bad taste.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • But I imagine it to be an instance rather of the harm of imperfect science.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • In this sketch of a tragedy, all is imperfect, and much obscure.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Nor need we wonder that his bed has but an imperfect relation to the truth.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

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