Definitions for perfection

perfection per·fec·tion

Spelling: [per-fek-shuh n]
IPA: /pərˈfɛk ʃən/

Perfection is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 658 anagrams from letters in perfection (ceefinoprt).

Definitions for perfection

noun

  1. the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
  2. the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art.
  3. a perfect embodiment or example of something.
  4. a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.
  5. the highest or most nearly perfect degree of a quality or trait.
  6. the act or fact of perfecting.

Origin of perfection

1175-1225; Latin perfectiōn- (stem of perfectiō) a finishing (see perfect, -ion); replacing Middle English perfectiun, perfeccioun Anglo-Fr

Examples for perfection

How a workable civilization is less about perfection and more about strict zoning.

It gives grace, it is perfection, which has only need to show itself to conquer.

But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.

Stables and neat-houses were the perfection of cleanliness and airiness.

The romantic solution deified our lovers so that we have become purged “through a perfect consummation with perfection itself.”

Her costume had about it an indubitable air, a finality of perfection in its kind.

Jay Z and Beyoncé had a reputation built on perfection, and now that reputation is experiencing fast and furious trauma.

At forty if a man chooses to assume the role of Orlando he does it to perfection.

It was a reminder that, as Beyoncé once sang, “perfection is the disease of a nation,” and her family is hardly flawless.

Unless it be to think that she is by And feed upon the shadow of perfection.

Word Value for perfection
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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