perfect
- adjective
- /ˈpɜrfɪkt/
- The speed is right, the speed is perfect, the noise not so great.
- a perfect gift
- near-perfect
- in perfect harmony
And AI is kind of the perfect tool to create it.
- And AI is kind of the perfect tool to create it.
- No, no, now is the perfect time to start right now.
- I think this would be perfect for me, pun intended.
- This guy has gone and created this perfect movie.
- So it's by no means perfect, but it is now harder.
- That that is the perfect appointee for this guy.
Examples
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This is the most perfect view from our Airbnb.
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And now is the perfect time to let it out.
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So what does the perfect car look like?
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No, no, now is the perfect time to start right now.
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This guy has gone and created this perfect movie.
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...I knew it was the perfect gift for you.
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It's very light, very thin, perfect for this time of year.
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I feel like you're the kind of perfect audience for my work.
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Josie just found the most perfect shoes in the world.
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She completed the project to perfection, ensuring every detail was perfect.
Synonyms
Very good or excellent in quality
Very good and better than most similar things
Exactly correct in every detail
Having all needed parts and nothing missing
Perfect or best for a particular purpose
Perfect without any mistakes or faults
Perfect and without any faults in quality or manners
Completely clean and neat with no marks or stains
Extremely skilled and perfect in what they do
Very attractive and perfect to look at, like a photograph
Exactly right in tone or performance
Exactly correct in every word, matching the original text
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Informal
A situation in which several bad things happen at the same time and make things much worse
- Specialized
A baseball game where the pitcher allows no player from the other team to reach base
A photo taken at the best moment that shows the main thing in the picture clearly
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A verb tense that shows an action happened before another past action or time
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A verb form showing an action will be finished before a future time
- Literature
The vowel sound and the sound after it at the ends of lines match exactly
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A verb form that shows an action finished before now or another event
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A verb form that shows an action will finish before a future time
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A verb form for an action that finished before another past action
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An imagined gas whose particles have no size and do not attract each other, used in physics
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A verb form that uses having plus the past form to show an action finished before another
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A verb tense using has or have been plus -ing for actions started in the past and still continuing
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A verb form using has/have been plus -ing to show an action that started in the past and continues now
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A verb tense used to talk about actions that happened before now and still matter
How Perfect
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perfect comes from Latin per- 'completely' and facere 'to make', so it originally meant 'completely made'. That's why perfect now means 'complete' or 'without mistakes'.