Definitions for PERFECT

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PERFECT per·fect

Spelling: [adjective, noun pur-fikt; verb per-fekt]

IPA: /adjective, noun ˈpɜr fɪkt; verb pərˈfɛkt/

Perfect is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in PERFECT (ceefprt).

Definitions for PERFECT

noun

1. the perfect tense.
2. a verb form or construction in the perfect tense. Compare future perfect, pluperfect, present perfect.

adjective

1. conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type:
2. excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement:
3. exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose:
4. entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings:
5. accurate, exact, or correct in every detail:
6. thorough; complete; utter:
7. pure or unmixed:
8. unqualified; absolute:
9. expert; accomplished; proficient:
10. unmitigated; out-and-out; of an extreme degree:
11. Botany. having all parts or members present. monoclinous.
12. Grammar. noting an action or state brought to a close prior to some temporal point of reference, in contrast to imperfect or incomplete action. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning.
13. Music. applied to the consonances of unison, octave, and fifth, as distinguished from those of the third and sixth, which are called imperfect. applied to the intervals, harmonic or melodic, of an octave, fifth, and fourth in their normal form, as opposed to augmented and diminished.
14. Mathematics. (of a set) equal to its set of accumulation points.
15. Obsolete. assured or certain.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to completion; finish.
2. to bring to perfection; make flawless or faultless:
3. to bring nearer to perfection; improve; make better:
4. to make fully skilled.
5. Printing. to print the reverse of (a printed sheet).

Origin of PERFECT

1250-1300; Latin perfectus, past participle of perficere to finish, bring to completion (per- per- + -fec-, combining form of facere to do¹

Examples for PERFECT

The Oscar-winning actress put nude photo thieves in their place with one perfect statement.

For more than an hour, there was perfect stillness, as the shades of evening deepened.

So perfect that we wonder if we should risk ruining it by asking for yet another take.

It was also the most shocking revelation of 2014: Beyoncé Knowles is not perfect.

Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.

The perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

Pericles had not visited his son since his return to perfect consciousness.

Thoroughbred is the word for her, style and action, as the horse people say, perfect.

No one who listened to her could doubt her perfect truthfulness and integrity.

His senses breathed the air of her perfect and compelling femininity.