Definition of: perfect

(pûr′fikt) adjective
1. Having all the qualities, excellences, or elements that are requisite to its nature or kind; without defect or lack; consummated; supremely excellent; complete.
2. Thoroughly versed or informed; completely skilled: a perfect soldier.
3. Closely correspondent; accurately reproducing: a perfect replica.
4. Thoroughly effectual; meeting the requirements of the occasion: a perfect antidote; a perfect answer.
5. Colloq. Excessive in degree; very great: She has a perfect horror of spiders.
6. Bot. Having the essential organs, stamens, and pistils: said of flowers.
7. Gram. Denoting the tense of the verb expressing completed action in the past. Some grammarians note in English a present perfect, past perfect (or pluperfect), and a future perfect tense, a conditional perfect, and a perfect infinitive and participle.
8. Music a Of a character not altered by inversion: said of interval: a perfect fifth or octave. b Complete: a perfect cadence.
9. Obs. Assured; positive.
—noun Gram. The perfect tense, or a verb in this tense.
—v.t. (pər·fekt′)
1. To bring to perfection; complete; finish.
2. To make thoroughly skilled or accomplished: to perfect oneself in an art. [<OF parfit <L perfectus, pp. of perficere accomplish <per- thoroughly + facere do, make]
—per·fect′er noun
—per·fect′i·bil′i·ty noun
—per·fect′i·ble adjective
—per′·fect·ly adverb Synonyms (adj.): absolute, accurate, blameless, complete, completed, consummate, correct, entire, faultless, finished, holy, ideal, immaculate, infallible, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled. That is perfect to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken without impairing its excellence, symmetry, or worth; as, a perfect flower; a copy of a document is perfect when it is accurate in every particular; a vase may be called perfect when entire and unblemished, even if not artistically faultless; the best judges never pronounce a work of art perfect, because they see always ideal possibilities not yet attained; even the ideal is not perfect, by reason of the imperfection of the human mind; a human character faultlessly holy would be morally perfect but finite. That which is absolute is free from admixture (as absolute alcohol) and from imperfection or limitation. See CORRECT, IMPLICIT, INNOCENT, PURE, RADICAL, RIPE. Antonyms: bad, blemished, corrupt, corrupted, defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, fallible, faulty, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, insufficient, marred, meager, perverted, poor, ruined, short, spoiled, worthless.