Definitions for perfects

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perfects per·fect

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

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

Perfects is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 287 anagrams from letters in perfects (ceefprst).

Definitions for perfects

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 perfects

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

Examples for perfects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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