picture-perfect moment
- noun
- Their wedding day was filled with picture-perfect moments that they would cherish forever.
Examples
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The sunset over the mountains created a picture-perfect moment that everyone wanted to capture.
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Picture-perfect moment.
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And I believe that moments like this, handled well after the fact, do as much (if not more) to mold and train our kids as all the picture-perfect moments do.
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During our family vacation, we experienced a picture-perfect moment when we all gathered for a photo by the lake.
Antonyms
How Perfect
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Morphology
picture-perfect + moment
The compound adjective 'picture-perfect' can be directly derived from 'picture' (a photograph) + 'perfect' (flawless), so its meaning 'as flawless as a photograph' is transparent. Combined with 'moment' the phrase literally denotes an ideal or flawless moment, a compositional pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer.
Etymology
Picture-perfect moment comes from photography; the words picture and perfect paint a simple image of a scene that looks exactly right for a photo. So, the phrase now means 'an ideal' or 'flawless' moment that seems ready to be captured.