Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to imperfect
Participle: imperfected
Gerund: imperfecting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | imperfect |
| you | imperfect |
| he;she;it | imperfects |
| we | imperfect |
| you | imperfect |
| they | imperfect |
Perfect
| I | have imperfected |
| you | have imperfected |
| he;she;it | has imperfected |
| we | have imperfected |
| you | have imperfected |
| they | have imperfected |
Past
| I | imperfected |
| you | imperfected |
| he;she;it | imperfected |
| we | imperfected |
| you | imperfected |
| they | imperfected |
Pluperfect
| I | had imperfected |
| you | had imperfected |
| he;she;it | had imperfected |
| we | had imperfected |
| you | had imperfected |
| they | had imperfected |
Future
| I | will imperfect |
| you | will imperfect |
| he;she;it | will imperfect |
| we | will imperfect |
| you | will imperfect |
| they | will imperfect |
Future Perfect
| I | will have imperfected |
| you | will have imperfected |
| he;she;it | will have imperfected |
| we | will have imperfected |
| you | will have imperfected |
| they | will have imperfected |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | imperfect |
| you | imperfect |
| he;she;it | imperfect |
| we | imperfect |
| you | imperfect |
| they | imperfect |
Perfect
| I | have imperfected |
| you | have imperfected |
| he;she;it | have imperfected |
| we | have imperfected |
| you | have imperfected |
| they | have imperfected |
Imperfect
| I | imperfected |
| you | imperfected |
| he;she;it | imperfected |
| we | imperfected |
| you | imperfected |
| they | imperfected |
Pluperfect
| I | had imperfected |
| you | had imperfected |
| he;she;it | had imperfected |
| we | had imperfected |
| you | had imperfected |
| they | had imperfected |
Conditional
Present
| I | would imperfect |
| you | would imperfect |
| he;she;it | would imperfect |
| we | would imperfect |
| you | would imperfect |
| they | would imperfect |
Perfect
| I | would have imperfected |
| you | would have imperfected |
| he;she;it | would have imperfected |
| we | would have imperfected |
| you | would have imperfected |
| they | would have imperfected |
Imperative
| you | imperfect |
| we | Let's imperfect |
| you | imperfect |
Verbs conjugated like 'imperfect'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'imperfect'
perfect,
unperfect,
imprest,
interject,
intersect,
amplect,
defect,
effect,
erect,
hyperreact,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Italic *n̥-
5. Latin im-
6. Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
7. Proto-Italic *peri-
8. Latin per-
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
10. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
13. Proto-Italic *θakjō
14. Proto-Italic *fakjō
15. Latin faciō
16. Latin perficiō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
18. Proto-Italic *-tus
19. Latin -tus
20. Latin perfectus
21. Latin imperfectusder.
22. Old French imparfitder.
23. Middle English imperfit
24. English imperfect
25. From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- + perfect.
Sample Sentences
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1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,
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I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.
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Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others. [1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 43:]
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[…] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […] [1962, Alec Harman, Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West, Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126:]