What does imperfect mean?
Imperfect means Not perfect,.
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/ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/ · adjective
Not perfect,.
Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.
Nothing imperfet or deficient left Of all that he Created.
Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
When the prophet Joel was describing the formidable accidents in the day of the Lord's judgment, and the fearful sentence of an angry Judge, he was not able to express it, but stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.
1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910, I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.
Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.
[…] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […]
Use imperfect when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Imperfect means Not perfect,.
Common synonyms include defective, fallible, faultful, faulty.
Possible antonyms include faultless, infallible, perfect.
Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.
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