American English pronunciation
How to pronounce perfect
IPA transcription: [pɚ'fɛkt]
Pronunciation variants: [pɚ'fɛkt]['pɚ,fɪkt]
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Noun
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a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Verb
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make perfect or complete
“perfect your French in Paris!”
Adjective
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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”
Adjective
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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”
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precisely accurate or exact
“perfect timing”
Usage examples
- It was faintly marked with transverse stripes and slightly flattened from the perfect round.
- Ironically, you just gave me the perfect alibi.
- Two-wave sources are perfectly coherent if they have a constant phase difference and the same frequency.
- It trivially implies the perfect graph theorem, hence the name.
- You know, a perfect general!
- Even some writers later described him as a perfect life-sized Ken doll.
- I understand you perfectly.
- It was faintly marked with transverse stripes and slightly flattened from the perfect round.
- It was faintly marked with transverse stripes and slightly flattened from the perfect round.
- Ironically, you just gave me the perfect alibi.