Definition of Imperfect

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Imperfect

Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.

Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

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.

The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.

To make imperfect.

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Imperfect Quotations

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mohandas Gandhi

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Alexander Hamilton

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Angelina Jolie

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti

Imperfect Translations

imperfect in German is Imperfekt
imperfect in Norwegian is imperfektum, ufullkommen, mangelfull

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