Usually means: Flawed or incomplete in quality.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word imperfect:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperfect, the imperfect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imperfect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperfect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imperfect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imperfect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imperfect, imperfect: Wordnik
  7. imperfect, the imperfect (tense): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imperfect: Wiktionary
  9. imperfect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imperfect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imperfect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. imperfect: Dictionary.com
  13. imperfect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. imperfect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. I'mperfect, Imperfect (disambiguation), Imperfect (film), Imperfect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Imperfect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. imperfect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. imperfect: Rhymezone
  19. imperfect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. imperfect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. imperfect: Free Dictionary
  22. imperfect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. imperfect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. imperfect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperfect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperfect: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Imperfect: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See imperfectly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  not perfect
adjective:  (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
adjective:  (taxonomy) known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
adjective:  (obsolete) lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
adjective:  (grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
noun:  something having a minor flaw
noun:  (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
verb:  (transitive) to make imperfect

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