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Perfect   /pərfˈɛkt/  /pˈərfˌɪkt/   Listen
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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... Tlaloc and his wife Matlacuezc. Costal was only too glad to agree to this proposition; and promised to find a proper halting-place for Don Cornelio at some distance from the shores of the lake. There was no house of any kind in the vicinity, not even the meanest hut. This, Costal, from his perfect knowledge of the locality, was aware of; but the night was a pleasant one, and a few hours might be passed in the open air without any ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid
... set carelessly on the back of his head, disclosed a wide, high forehead; his flannel shirt, open at the throat, exposed a strong, columnar neck, and a deep, broad chest; his sunburned and muscular arms were folded across his breast; figure and posture revealed the perfect concord of body and soul with the beauty of the world; his great blue eyes were fixed upon the notch in the hills where the sun had just disappeared; he gazed without seeing and ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss
... very strange one. In the middle of her left palm was the perfect image of a crimson hand, about half an inch in length. There was also another. Henry Greyson, to please me, marked upon her forearm, in India ink, her name and birthday—'Capitola, Oct. ...
— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... absolute authority, he does not seem to have perfect control over the acts of his nobles or chiefs, who are a privileged class, and are constantly waging some petty war among themselves, or organizing a marauding expedition along the coast. The Sultan is compelled, to a certain extent, to ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... after we returned from Canada to New York I spent looking over Tom's "personal belongings"—as great a revelation as Aunt Martha's. His richly bound books, his beautiful furniture, his pictures—everything was perfect. That night Tom made an announcement: "The family gets home to-night, and they will come ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown


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