Usually means: Flawed or incomplete in quality.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word imperfect:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperfect, the imperfect: Merriam-Webster
  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: FreeDictionary.org
  22. imperfect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. imperfect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. imperfect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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 (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperfect: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. 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:  (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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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