imperfect

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
• Syn:
progressive, progressive tense, imperfect tense, continuous tense
• Hypernyms:
tense
• Hyponyms:
present progressive, present progressive tense, past progressive, past progressive tense, future progressive, future progressive tense

II - adjective

1. not perfect;
defective or inadequate (Freq. 2)
- had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities
- imperfect mortals
- drainage here is imperfect
• Ant:
perfect
• Similar to:
blemished, flawed, broken, corrupt, corrupted,
defective, faulty, imperfectible, irregular
• See Also:
blemished, broken
• Derivationally related forms:
imperfectness
• Attrubites:
perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra
2. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will;
having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings (Freq. 1)
- I'm only a fallible human
- frail humanity
• Syn:
fallible, frail, weak
• Similar to:
human
• Derivationally related forms:
imperfectness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fallible, frail, weak, progressive, progressive tense, imperfect tense, continuous tense