imperfectly
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3.7
- adverb
- /ɪmˈpɜrfɪktli/
:
imperfectamente
- And just write imperfectly because editing makes it perfect.
- only imperfectly
- albeit imperfectly
- however imperfectly
Could you be OK with doing it imperfectly now?
- Could you be OK with doing it imperfectly now?
- And just write imperfectly because editing makes it perfect.
- But you can imperfectly replay it I guess.
- And there are ways in which maybe he has imperfectly embodied those principles.
- Or you could be in some sort of error correcting mode where things are not going the way you've imperfectly learned the skill.
- But when they're slightly drunk, he says they're angered because they're capable of reasoning, even if it's imperfectly.
- He's saying these are there whether we philosophers grasp them as such, that we didn't in the past or we imperfectly did so.
- Its bone, its bones don't develop properly, nor do its blood vessels, its gut, various different parts of its body are imperfectly formed.
- If we want to minimize the unnecessary pain and suffering that we're inflicting, then we need billions of people doing this imperfectly.
- Like to have that courage to, to do it imperfectly, right.
- That's what people like Musk are trying to aim at, you know, however imperfectly.
- These are remarkably difficult things that that our system is imperfectly moving towards on a constant basis.
- As the Gita says, which I quote in the book, it's better to follow your own path imperfectly than to try to pursue someone else's path Perfect perfectly.
- As the Gita says, which I quote in the book, it's better to follow your own path imperfectly then to try to pursue someone else's path perfect perfectly.
Examples
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Then, as now, I was drawn to this complicated and beautiful country by its commitments, however imperfectly realized.
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We can get at the potential influence of generational change empirically, however imperfectly.
Academic text (2013) -
Could you be OK with doing it imperfectly now?
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And they describe imperfectly the range of options.
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These are remarkably difficult things that that our system is imperfectly moving towards on a constant basis.
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Their works were good, but imperfectly so, and there were degrees of perfection among them.
Academic text (1990) -
The irony, as she likely saw it, was that she could now speak two languages, both of them imperfectly.
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As human beings, we are rational animals, but we are imperfectly rational.
Academic text (2008) -
Human beings know things indirectly and imperfectly, through the medium of words or symbols, but know them they do.
Academic text (1997) -
It's important to try even if you do it imperfectly.
Synonyms
8
4.4
In a way that is not good enough
7
4.2
In a way that is not correct or exact
1
5.4
In a not exact or clear way that can cause mistakes
1
6.7
In a way that does not work properly
1
5.6
In a way that does not meet what is needed
In a wrong or broken way
In a way that is not exact or precise
Antonyms
How Perfect
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word imperfectly is built from im- 'not', perfect 'complete', and -ly which makes it describe how something is done. So imperfectly means 'in a not complete' or 'not perfect' way.