perfect

1. Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish (synset 301753804)
   "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
   also:

   • unblemished, unmarred, unmutilated - free from physical or moral spots or stains
   • unbroken - not broken; whole and intact; in one piece
   • exact - marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
   • utopian - characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection
   tells us about: flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection - the state of being without a flaw or defect
   similar to:

   • clean - (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
   • clear - free from flaw or blemish or impurity
   • cold - marked by errorless familiarity
   • complete, consummate - perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
   • down, down pat, mastered - understood perfectly
   • errorless - free from error
   • faultless, immaculate, impeccable, incorrupted - without fault or error
   • flawless, unflawed - without a flaw
   • ideal - conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
   • idealised, idealized - exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence
   • idyllic - excellent and delightful in all respects
   • mint - as if new
   • perfectible - capable of becoming or being made perfect
   • pluperfect - more than perfect
   • uncorrupted, undefiled - (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased
2. Without qualification;
   Used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers (synset 301524174)
   "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thorough nuisance"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
   similar to: unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier
   same as: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter
3. Precisely accurate or exact (synset 300918435)
   "perfect timing"
   similar to: exact - marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact

1. A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) (synset 113828352)
   is a type of: tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
   subtypes:

   • present perfect, present perfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present
   • past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
   • future perfect, future perfect tense - a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future
   same as: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense

1. Make perfect or complete (synset 200474503)
   "perfect your French in Paris!"
   is a type of: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate - to make better
   subtypes:

   • optimise, optimize - make optimal; get the most out of; use best
   • brush up, polish, polish up, round, round off - bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
   same as: hone

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