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Definition of Imperfect
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

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

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

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

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

Imperfect Translations

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


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