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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Imperfect \Im*per"fect\ ([i^]m*p[~e]r"f[e^]kt), n. (Gram.) The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Imperfect \Im*per"fect\, v. t. To make imperfect. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Imperfect \Im*per"fect\, a. [L. imperfectus: pref. im- not + perfectus perfect: cf. F imparfait, whence OE. imparfit. See {Perfect}.] 1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. [1913 Webster] Something he left imperfect in the state. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. [1913 Webster] He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 3. Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective. [1913 Webster] Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. --Pope. [1913 Webster] {Imperfect arch}, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew arch. {Imperfect cadence} (Mus.), one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close. {Imperfect consonances} (Mus.), chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth. {Imperfect flower} (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. --Gray. {Imperfect interval} (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth. {Imperfect number} (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is called also a {defective number}; in the latter, an {abundant number}. {Imperfect obligations} (Law), obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law. {Imperfect power} (Math.), a number which can not be produced by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube. {Imperfect tense} (Gram.), a tense expressing past time and incomplete action. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Preterimperfect \Pre`ter*im*per"fect\, a. & n. [Pref. preter- + imperfect.] (Gram.) Old name of the tense also called {imperfect}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: imperfect adj 1: not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect" [ant: {perfect}] 2: wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" [syn: {fallible}, {frail}, {imperfect}, {weak}] n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going [syn: {progressive}, {progressive tense}, {imperfect}, {imperfect tense}, {continuous tense}]