Thesaurus: perfect

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1. a. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
2. a. Well informed; certain; sure.
3. a. Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
4. n. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
5. a. To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
6. adj. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
7. adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
8. adj. precisely accurate or exact
9. n. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
10. v. make perfect or complete
11. 1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. Shak. I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Shak. O most entire perfect sacrifice! Keble. God made thee perfect, not immutable. Milton. 2. Well informed; certain; sure. I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms. Shak. 3. (Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave. -- Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C. -- Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed. Syn. -- Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind. God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. 1 John iv. 12. Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species. Locke. Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine. Syn. -- To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.
12. Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said offlower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close inharmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.-- Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which isperfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave,fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in itsoriginal position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.-- Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all itsdivisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2,1. See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C.-- Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or statecompleted.