1. Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
   "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day" 
2. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
   "a perfect idiot"
   - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated 
3. Precisely accurate or exact
   "perfect timing"

1. Make perfect or complete
   "perfect your French in Paris!"
   - hone

1. A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
   - perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense

Derived forms: perfected, perfecting, perfects

See also: clean, clear, cold, complete, consummate, down, down pat, errorless, exact, faultless, flawless, flawlessness, ideal, idealised [Brit], idealized, idyllic, immaculate, impeccable, mastered, mint, ne plus ultra, perfecter, perfectible, perfection, perfectly, pluperfect, unblemished, unbroken, uncorrupted, undefiled, unflawed, unmarred, unmitigated, unmutilated, utopian

Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, tense

Antonym: imperfect

Encyclopedia: Perfect

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