perfect

  • (a) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
    • a perfect circle
    • a perfect reproduction
    • perfect happiness
    • perfect manners
    • a perfect specimen
    • a perfect day
  • (s) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
    • 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
    arrant, double-dyed, sodding, utter, everlasting, pure, staring, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, consummate, complete, stark, gross,
  • (s) precisely accurate or exact
    • perfect timing

Nouns

Verbs

  • (v) make perfect or complete
    • perfect your French in Paris!
    hone,

Synonyms

perfective perfective tense perfect tense hone arrant double-dyed sodding utter everlasting pure staring thoroughgoing unadulterated consummate complete stark gross

Antonyms

imperfect

See also

exact unblemished unmarred unmutilated unbroken utopian

Words of close approximity

perfecta perfected perfecter perfect game perfect gas perfectibility perfectible perfection perfectionism perfectionist perfective perfective aspect perfective tense perfectly perfect participle perfect pitch perfect tense