[
US
/ˈpɝˌfɪkt, pɝˈfɛkt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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precisely accurate or exact
perfect timing -
being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
perfect manners
a perfect specimen
perfect happiness
a perfect day
a perfect reproduction
a perfect circle -
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
a perfect idiot
what a sodding mess
pure folly
the unadulterated truth
stark staring mad
a consummate fool
gross negligence
an arrant fool
a complete coward
a double-dyed villain
a thorough nuisance
VERB
-
make perfect or complete
perfect your French in Paris!
NOUN
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
How To Use perfect In A Sentence
- He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
- There's nothing at all wrong with a bit of human imperfection here and there.
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
- A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
- The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Tough, stylish, and super comfy, this leather slip-on is the perfect after-sport snowshoe.
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