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Perfect   /pərfˈɛkt/  /pˈərfˌɪkt/   Listen
Perfect

adjective
1.
Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish.  "A perfect reproduction" , "Perfect happiness" , "Perfect manners" , "A perfect specimen" , "A perfect day"
2.
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.  Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter.  "A complete coward" , "A consummate fool" , "A double-dyed villain" , "Gross negligence" , "A perfect idiot" , "Pure folly" , "What a sodding mess" , "Stark staring mad" , "A thoroughgoing villain" , "Utter nonsense" , "The unadulterated truth"
3.
Precisely accurate or exact.
verb
(past & past part. perfected; pres. part. perfecting)
1.
Make perfect or complete.  Synonym: hone.
noun
1.
A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect).  Synonyms: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense.



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"Perfect" Quotes from Famous Books



... I, waking, be allowed "To gaze upon those perfect charms, "And clasp thee once without a cloud, "A chill of earth, within ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... in the middle, may generally be seen. This, I believe, is the bottom of a most delicate, colourless sac, composed of a pulpy substance, which lines the exterior case, but does not extend within the extreme conical points. In some specimens, small but perfect spheres of brownish granular matter supplied the places of the septa; and I observed the curious process by which they were produced. The pulpy matter of the internal coating suddenly grouped itself into lines, some of which assumed a form ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin
... was probably the best recommendation of there complimentary toasts to the two Highlanders, who drank them without appearing anxious to comprehend their purport. They commenced a conversation with Mr. Galbraith in Gaelic, which he talked with perfect fluency, being, as I afterwards learned, a near neighbour to ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... be aware that when Hawkins is left alone he doesn't bother with that sort of demon; he links arms with the old, original Satan, and together they stroll into Hawkins' workshop—to perfect an invention. ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... Holy Child instructed by Joseph in the use of tools, and the Mother sitting with her book, "pondering these things in her heart." All around were blocks of wood and carvings in varying states of progress—some scarcely shaped out, and others in perfect completion. And the subjects were equally various. Here was an adoring angel with folded wings, clasped hands, and rapt face; here a majestic head of an apostle or prophet; here a lovely virgin saint, seeming to play smilingly with the instrument of her martyrdom; here a grotesque miserere ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge


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