noun
- A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect.
- synonyms: perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense
verb
- Make perfect or complete.
- usage: "perfect your French in Paris"
- synonyms: hone
adjective
- Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish.
- usage: "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
- Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
- usage: "an arrant fool"; "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"
- synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
- Precisely accurate or exact.
- usage: "perfect timing"
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