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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024per•fect /adj., n. ˈpɜrfɪkt; v. pɚˈfɛkt/USA pronunciation adj. - excellent beyond improvement:a perfect score on her test.
- exactly fitting the need for a certain purpose:The director found the perfect actor for the part.
- entirely without flaws, defects, or shortcomings:a perfect apple.
- accurate, exact, or correct in every detail:a perfect copy.
- agreeing with or fitting the description or definition of an ideal kind or type:[before a noun]a perfect gentleman.
- Grammarof or naming a verb tense, aspect, or form usually used to indicate an action or state that extends up to, or has results continuing up to, the present time, or to some other point in time that is clear from the meaning:In English the perfect tenses, like the present perfect and the past perfect, are formed with some form of the verb have followed by the present or past participle of the main verb.
v. [~ + object] - to bring to perfection or near to perfection:He spent weeks perfecting his computer program.
n. - Grammar[uncountable* usually: the + ~] the perfect tense or aspect.
- Grammar[countable] a verb form or construction in the perfect tense or aspect.
per•fect•ness, n. [uncountable]See -fec-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024per•fect (adj., n. pûr′fikt;v. pər fekt′),USA pronunciation adj. - conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type:a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement:There is no perfect legal code. The proportions of this temple are almost perfect.
- exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose:a perfect actor to play Mr. Micawber; a perfect saw for cutting out keyholes.
- entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings:a perfect apple; the perfect crime.
- accurate, exact, or correct in every detail:a perfect copy.
- thorough;
complete;
utter:perfect strangers. - pure or unmixed:perfect yellow.
- unqualified;
absolute:He has perfect control over his followers. - expert;
accomplished;
proficient. - unmitigated;
out-and-out;
of an extreme degree:He made a perfect fool of himself. - [Bot.]
- Botanyhaving all parts or members present.
- Botanymonoclinous.
- Grammar
- noting an action or state brought to a close prior to some temporal point of reference, in contrast to imperfect or incomplete action.
- designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning.
- Music and Dance
- applied to the consonances of unison, octave, and fifth, as distinguished from those of the third and sixth, which are called imperfect.
- applied to the intervals, harmonic or melodic, of an octave, fifth, and fourth in their normal form, as opposed to augmented and diminished.
- Mathematics(of a set) equal to its set of accumulation points.
- [Obs.]assured or certain.
n. [Gram.] - Grammarthe perfect tense.
- Grammara verb form or construction in the perfect tense. Cf. future perfect, pluperfect, present perfect.
v.t. - to bring to completion;
finish. - to bring to perfection;
make flawless or faultless. - to bring nearer to perfection;
improve. - to make fully skilled.
- Printingto print the reverse of (a printed sheet).
- Latin as above
- Old French
- Latin perfectus, past participle of perficere to finish, bring to completion (per- per- + -fec-, combining form of facere to do1 + -tus past participle suffix); replacing Middle English parfit
- 1250–1300
- 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See complete.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged unblemished; faultless.
A few usage guides still object to the use of comparison words such as more, most, nearly, almost, and rather with perfect on the grounds that perfect describes an absolute, yes-or-no condition that cannot logically be said to exist in varying degrees. The English language has never agreed to this limitation. Since its earliest use in the 13th century, perfect has, like almost all adjectives, been compared, first in the now obsolete forms perfecter and perfectest, and more recently with more, most, and similar comparison words:the most perfect arrangement of color and line imaginable.Perfect is compared in most of its general senses in all varieties of speech and writing. After all, one of the objectives of the writers of the U.S. Constitution was "to form a more perfect union.'' See also complete, unique. |