imperfect
English
/ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/, /ɪmpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/
adj
Definitions
- not perfect
- (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- (obsolete) lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
- (grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English imperfit derived from Old French imparfit derived from Latin imperfectus affix from English perfect.
Origin
English
perfect
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hemiperfect English
- hyperperfect English
- imperfectly English
- imperfectness English
- multiperfect English
- nonperfect English
- perfect English
- perfectability English
- perfectamundo English
- perfectation English
- perfecter English
- perfectest English
- perfecteth English
- perfectible English
- perfectitude English
- perfectly English
- perfectness English
- perfectoid English
- perfector English
- preterimperfect English
- preterperfect English
- quasiperfect English
- self-perfect English
- semiperfect English
- superperfect English
- triperfect English
- unperfect English
- word-perfect English
- imperfectus Latin
- perfectus Latin
- imperfetto Italian
- imparfait French
- imperfecto Spanish, Castilian
- imperfeito Portuguese
- imperfit Middle English
- perfit Middle English
- imparfit Old French
- imperfecte Catalan, Valencian
- *emperifaktos Proto-Italic
- perfect
- perfectly
- perfecter
- perfector
- unperfect
- perfectest
- nonperfect
- perfecteth
- triperfect
- perfectoid
- perfectible
- imperfectly
- hemiperfect
- perfectness
- semiperfect
- quasiperfect
- superperfect
- word-perfect
- multiperfect
- self-perfect
- perfectation
- hyperperfect
- perfectitude
- preterperfect
- perfectamundo
- imperfectness
- perfectability
- preterimperfect