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perfectness

Variant of perfect

adjective

  1. complete in all respects; without defect or omission; sound; flawless
  2. in a condition of complete excellence, as in skill or quantity; faultless; most excellent; sometimes used comparatively: “to create a more perfect union”
  3. completely correct or accurate; exact; precise: a perfect copy
  4. without reserve or qualification; pure; utter; sheer; absolute: a perfect fool, perfect stranger
  5. designating a binding of books in which pages are glued to cloth or paper at the spine rather than having the signatures sewn together
  6. Bot. monoclinous
  7. Gram. expressing or showing a state or action completed at the time of speaking or at the time indicated: verbs have three perfect tenses: simple (or present) perfect, past perfect (or pluperfect), and future perfect
  8. Music designating an interval of a unison, fourth, fifth, or octave

transitive verb

  1. to bring to completion
  2. to make perfect or more nearly perfect according to a given standard, as by training

noun

  1. the perfect tense
  2. a verb form in this tense

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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