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/pərfˈɛkt/ /pˈərfˌɪkt/ Listen

adjective

Perfect adj.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. "My strength is made perfect in weakness." "Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun." "I fear I am not in my perfect mind." "O most entire perfect sacrifice!" "God made thee perfect, not immutable."

Well informed; certain; sure. "I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms."

(Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; said of a flower.

Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.

Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.

Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant.

Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed; also called the perfective tense.

Synonyms: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.

verb

Perfect v. t. (past & past part. perfected; pres. part. perfecting) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind. "God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us." "Inquire into the nature and properties of the things,... and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species."

Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

Synonyms: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.

noun

Perfect n. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

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Etymology of 'Perfect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perfect" Quotes from Famous Books

... quite an hour after. Mary Jane, loyal to the core, had kept her ailing mistress in perfect ignorance of the terrible calamity, and the little boys still crowded round the kitchen ...

— A Big Temptation • L. T. Meade

... called David and me into his cabin and asked us about our schools, handed us books to read, and seemed surprised to find that Scotch boys could read and pronounce English with perfect accent and knew so much Latin and French. In Scotch schools only pure English was taught, although not a word of English was spoken out of school. All through life, however well educated, the Scotch spoke Scotch among their own folk, except at times when unduly excited on the only two subjects ...

— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir

... communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the soul in order that sound may not mar the ecstasy of feeling? In such moments, when the thoughts of two happy beings penetrate into each other's souls through the eyes, the spoken word is halting, ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... dozen beautiful pearly teeth to display themselves, and glance brightly in the sun; while round the teeth and the lips a number of lovely dimples make their appearance, and her whole countenance assumes a look of perfect health and happiness. See her companion in shot silk and a dove-colored parasol; in what a graceful Watteau-like attitude she reclines. The tall courier who has been bouncing about the deck in attendance upon these ladies (it is his first day of service, and he is eager to make a favorable impression ...

— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray

... and for this worthy I wrote an advertisement for a wife. He was thin, and shy, and emaciated—a breathing skeleton, in the receipt of some hundred and twenty pounds a-year; a martyr to the rheumatism, and a radical. He required but little; a moderate fortune; tolerable person; good education; perfect housewifery; implicit obedience; and, finally, wound up the list of requisites from mere lack of breath, and modestly intimated that youth would not be considered an objection, provided that great prudence and rigid economy accompanied ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 265, July 21, 1827 • Various

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