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imperfect (ɪmˈpɜːfɪkt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | exhibiting or characterized by faults, mistakes, etc; defective |
| 2. | not complete or finished; deficient |
| 3. | botany |
| a. (of flowers) lacking functional stamens or pistils | |
| b. (of fungi) not undergoing sexual reproduction | |
| 4. | grammar denoting a tense of verbs used most commonly in describing continuous or repeated past actions or events, as for example was walking as opposed to walked |
| 5. | law See also executory (of a trust, an obligation, etc) lacking some necessary formality to make effective or binding; incomplete; legally unenforceable |
| 6. | music |
| a. (of a cadence) proceeding to the dominant from the tonic, subdominant, or any chord other than the dominant | |
| b. Compare perfect of or relating to all intervals other than the fourth, fifth, and octave | |
| —n | |
| 7. | grammar |
| a. the imperfect tense | |
| b. a verb in this tense | |
| im'perfectly | |
| —adv | |
| im'perfectness | |
| —n | |
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Im'perfectly
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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