perfect

Meanings

Adjective

• Fitting its definition precisely.
• Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
• Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.
• Excellent and delightful in all respects.
• Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
• Representing a completed action.
• Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
• Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
• Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
• Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
• Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
• Well informed; certain; sure.
• Innocent, guiltless.

Noun

• The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
• A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

Verb

• To make perfect; to improve or hone.
• To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Related

Similar words

• accurate, flawless
• faultless, infallible
• expert, proficient
• mature
• bisexual, hermaphroditic
• preterperfect
• enhance, hone, improve, optimize

Opposite words

• flawed
• faulty, faultful, fallible
• imperfect

Narrower meaning words

• future perfect
• past perfect
• pluperfect
• present perfect

Origin

• From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere, from per- + facere. Spelling modified 15c. to conform to Latin etymology. parfait.
• Displaced native .
• From perfect .