perfect

Meaning

1. Fitting its definition precisely.
2. Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
3. Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
4. Exact, correctly reflecting the original in all aspects.
5. Having thoroughly learned or memorized a part.
6. Having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.
7. Fully trained or very knowledgeable; highly skilled
8. Excellent and delightful in all respects.
9. Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
10. Representing a completed action.
11. Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
12. Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
13. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
14. A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
15. A leader of the Cathar movement.
16. To make perfect; to improve or hone.
17. To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English perfit, from Old French parfit (modern: parfait), from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”). The spelling was modified in the 15th century to conform to its Latin etymon. Doublet of parfait, perfecto, and perfectus. Displaced native Old English fulfremed.

Related words

Descendant words

• perfect(Chinese) (bor)
• perfekti(Finnish) (cog)
• パーフェクト(Japanese) (bor)
• 퍼펙트(Korean) (bor)
• perfect(Spanish) (bor)
• perfecto(Spanish) (cog)

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