Perfect

/ˈpɜː.fɪkt/ · adjective

Meaning

Fitting its definition precisely..

Definitions by Sense

1. Fitting its definition precisely.
2. Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
3. Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
4. Excellent and delightful in all respects.
5. Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
6. (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
7. (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
8. (botany, of flowers) Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).

Example Sentences

a perfect circle

That bucket with the hole in the bottom is a poor bucket, but it is perfect for watering plants.

The gymnast performed a perfect somersault.

I think I'm in love—I can't stop thinking about her. She's perfect!

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

a perfect day

And was the day of my delight ⁠As pure and perfect as I say? ⁠The very source and fount of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

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Related Words

Word Forms

• perfecter
• more perfect
• perfectest
• most perfect
• perfite
• perfight
• pf.
• poifect
• perfects
• perfecting
• perfected

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