perfect
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈpɜr.fɪkt/
- Offensive
- - It was a perfect failure.
- a perfect example
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Watch on YouTubeThe COVID virus was a perfect test of total control.
- The COVID virus was a perfect test of total control.
- They have all coward to one man, perfect example, Elon Musk.
- There you go there you go perfect, perfect answer for that one.
- his opinion was, I think Trump and Obama are perfect examples of narcissists.
- Beast post perfect model citizen, could be a perfect model citizen, right?
Examples
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None of them are perfect in any way, shape or form.
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What's happening to us this last week is a perfect example of stress.
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And this is the the perfect example of that.
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So they make this character too perfect or, or it's too flat.
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OK, So it's a perfect textbook example, OK.
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We can't all be perfect like this one.
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The Christian community is not perfect, and many events of its past are mean and shameful.
Academic text (1991) -
We support democracy not because we think ourselves perfect, but because we know ourselves to be deeply imperfect.
Academic text (2008) -
Nobody is perfect.
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This report is a perfect example of how not to do your job.
Synonyms
716
2.8
People say this to show something is totally bad or extreme
488
3.9
Completely and only that thing, often to show dislike
144
3.7
Complete and absolute, showing a very strong degree
84
5.6
Clear and extreme, often in an unpleasant way
69
4.3
Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure
24
7.7
Extremely skilled and perfect in what they do
15
6.9
Complete and not mixed with anything, used to show strong feeling
6
9.9
A mildly rude word people use to show strong annoyance in Britain
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6.7
Shows something is completely bad or extreme
3
9.9
Shows that something is completely bad or foolish
2
7.7
Done completely and carefully, leaving nothing out
1
9.6
Being very bad and dishonest in a strong way
Antonyms
Idioms
Trying to be perfect can stop good work from getting done
Compounds
- Informal
29
6.0
A situation in which several bad things happen at the same time and make things much worse
- Specialized
14
6.1
A baseball game where the pitcher allows no player from the other team to reach base
3
2.7
A photo taken at the best moment that shows the main thing in the picture clearly
- Specialized
1
3.0
A verb tense that shows an action happened before another past action or time
- Specialized
1
4.2
A verb form that shows an action finished before now or another event
- Specialized
1
5.5
A verb form showing an action will be finished before a future time
- Specialized
1
3.9
A verb form for an action that finished before another past action
- Literature
1
4.8
The vowel sound and the sound after it at the ends of lines match exactly
- Specialized
1
3.4
A verb tense used to talk about actions that happened before now and still matter
- Specialized
1
7.4
A verb form that uses having plus the past form to show an action finished before another
- Specialized
1
4.7
A verb tense using has or have been plus -ing for actions started in the past and still continuing
- Specialized
1
5.3
A verb form using has/have been plus -ing to show an action that started in the past and continues now
- Specialized
1
5.1
A verb form that shows an action will finish before a future time
- Specialized
1
6.5
An imagined gas whose particles have no size and do not attract each other, used in physics
How Emphatic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perfect in phrases like 'a perfect fool' uses the old sense 'complete' — it means someone is a full or total example of that kind. A helpful way to remember is that here perfect means 'completely' or 'very much', which is why it can sound negative.