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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

... young warm life. She was as sweet as before, but there was a soft shyness over her, a half-shamed, half-frank consciousness in her face, a glad light in her eyes that made her all new to me. Her perfect trust in ...

— Black Rock • Ralph Connor

... but to do otherwise would be an act of ingratitude to my servant, Private J. B. COX. I told him this morning that I had lost my pocket pen, a cheap affair made of tin. I instructed him to find it, and J. B. is one of those perfect factotums who do as they are told. He has a sharp eye and no scruples, and so, owing to the fact that three other officers live in my billet, he was able to find two valuable fountain pens and one stylographic in no time. The exigencies of ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 • Various

... perfect modesty; ordered a bottle of sherry and a bread cake to the little dingy lodgings where she dwelt, while conducting the business, to treat the enemy's lawyers: shook hands with them at parting, in excellent ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... distinguished from what is wrong with the precision of an algebraic equation. They have, therefore, none too much charity towards others who differ from them. They are apt, too, to think that nothing is good but what is perfect, and that there are no compromises or modifications to be made in consideration of difference of opinion or in deference to other men's judgment. If their perspicacious vision enables them to detect a spot on the face of the sun, they think that a good reason why the sun ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... which can find ready entrance into the mind of a young man who sees a girl blooming with the freshness and beauty of youth. It would have seemed to him, had he thought about it at all, that Marion's health was perfect. But he was afraid of her obstinacy, and he felt that this objection might be more binding on her than that which she put forward in reference to his rank. He went back, therefore, to Hendon Hall only half-satisfied,—sometimes ...

— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope

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