imperfect
Speech parts
1. imperfect - Noun
2. imperfect - Adjective
3. imperfect - Verb
4. imperfect - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
To make imperfect.
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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.