adjective. Not perfect.

adjective. Of or being the tense of a verb that shows, usually in the past, an action or a condition as incomplete, continuous, or coincident with another action.

adjective. Having either stamens or a pistil only. Used of a flower.

adjective. Not reproducing sexually. Used of fungi.

adjective. Potentially unenforceable; limited or defective.

noun. A piece of merchandise having a minor flaw that does not impair its use, usually sold at a discount.

noun. undefined

noun. The imperfect tense.

noun. A verb in the imperfect tense.

To render imperfect.

Not perfect; lacking completeness, correctness, or excellence; falling short of a standard or ideal; defective; incomplete: as, an imperfect copy of a book; imperfect vision.

Characterized by or subject to defects; not completely good; frail; inadequate.

In gram., designating incomplete or continuous action, or action or condition conceived as in process when something else takes place, as in Latin amabat, French aimait, Greek ε%27λνε, as distinguished from the simple past forms (aoristic), without further implication, amavit, aima, ε%27λνσε.

In music. See the phrases below.

Unjust; unfair.

Weak, erring.

noun. In grammar, an imperfect tense; a past continuous tense.

noun. The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.

adjective. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.

adjective. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

adjective. 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.

adjective. an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew arch.

adjective. one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close.

adjective. chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth.

adjective. a flower wanting either stamens or pistils.

adjective. one a semitone less than perfect.

adjective. a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an abundant number.

adjective. obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law.

adjective. a number which can not be produced by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube.

adjective. a tense expressing past time and incomplete action.

transitive verb. To make imperfect.

adjective. Not perfect

adjective. unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

adjective. Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

noun. Something having a minor flaw

noun. A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.

noun. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

adjective. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings

adjective. not perfect; defective or inadequate

"In place of these programs and the premiums we now contribute to them, and along with catastrophic insurance, the government should create a new form of health savings account — a vehicle that has existed, though in imperfect form, since 2003."

absolute  complete  excellent  perfect  

imperfect demonstration  imperfect evolute  imperfect flower  imperfect intervals  imperfect measure  

blemished  broken  corrupt  corrupted  defective  

imperfection  

accurate  defective  false  inadequate  incomplete  

adulterated  aggravated  amiss  aorist  bad