imperfect

Meanings

Adjective

  • not perfect
  • unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
  • known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
  • lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
  • belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

Noun

Verb

  • to make imperfect

Origin

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

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