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imperfect

adj
/ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt//ɪmpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/

Etymology

From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- + perfect.

  1. derived from imperfectus
  2. derived from imparfit
  3. inherited from imperfit

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. Unisexual

    Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

  3. Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Representing a continuing or repeated action.

    2. Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

      • 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.

    3. Something having a minor flaw.

    4. A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.

    5. to make imperfect

      • 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 […]

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Derived

imperfect authentic cadence, imperfect fungi, imperfect indicative, imperfectly, imperfectness, imperfect rhyme, imperfect subjunctive, imperfect tense, imperfect time, past imperfect tense, present imperfect, imperfective

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at imperfect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at imperfect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at imperfect

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA