perfect
a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
• Syn:
perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense
• Hypernyms:
tense
• Hyponyms:
present perfect, present perfect tense, past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect,
pluperfect tense, future perfect, future perfect tense
make perfect or complete (Freq. 4)
- perfect your French in Paris!
• Syn:
hone
• Derivationally related forms:
perfectible, perfection, perfecter
• Hypernyms:
better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
• Hyponyms:
optimize, optimise, polish, round, round off,
polish up, brush up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
1. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish (Freq. 17)
- a perfect circle
- a perfect reproduction
- perfect happiness
- perfect manners
- a perfect specimen
- a perfect day
• Ant:
imperfect
• Similar to:
clean, clear, cold, complete, consummate,
down, down pat, mastered, errorless, faultless, immaculate,
impeccable, flawless, unflawed, ideal, idealized, idealised,
idyllic, mint, perfectible, pluperfect, uncorrupted, undefiled
• See Also:
exact, unblemished, unmarred, unmutilated, unbroken, utopian
• Attrubites:
perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra
2. without qualification;
used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- an arrant fool
- a complete coward
- a consummate fool
- a double-dyed villain
- gross negligence
- a perfect idiot
- pure folly
- what a sodding mess
- stark staring mad
- a thoroughgoing villain
- utter nonsense
- the unadulterated truth
• Syn:
arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting,
gross, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing,
utter, unadulterated
• Similar to:
unmitigated
3. precisely accurate or exact
- perfect timing
• Similar to:
exact
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