imperfection as a noun: - 1
imperfection
noun
1 imperfection
The state or an instance of being imperfect.
synonym: imperfectness.
Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Roget 34:
inferiority,
minority,
subordinacy;
shortcoming,
deficiency;
minimum;
smallness
etc.
32;
imperfection;
lower quality,
lower worth.
[personal inferiority]
commonalty
etc.
876.
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Roget 53:
incompleteness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency,
short measure;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
imperfection
etc.
651;
immaturity
etc.
(nonpreparation)
674;
half measures.
[part wanting]
defect,
deficit,
defalcation,
omission;
caret;
shortage;
interval
etc.
198;
break
etc.
(discontinuity)
70;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
missing link.
missing piece,
missing part,
gap,
hole,
lacuna.
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Roget 304:
shortcoming,
failure;
falling short
etc.
v.;
default,
defalcation;
leeway;
labor in vain,
no go.
incompleteness
etc.
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
insufficiency
etc.
640;
noncompletion
etc.
730;
failure
etc.
732.
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Roget 640:
insufficiency;
inadequacy,
inadequateness;
incompetence
etc.
(impotence)
158;
deficiency
etc.
(incompleteness)
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
paucity;
stint;
scantiness
etc.
(smallness)
32;
none to spare,
bare subsistence.
scarcity,
dearth;
want,
need,
lack,
poverty,
exigency;
inanition,
starvation,
famine,
drought.
dole,
mite,
pittance;
short allowance,
short commons;
half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness,
poorness
etc.
adj.;
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity;
ebb tide;
low water;
a beggarly account of empty boxes"
[Romeo and Juliet];
indigence
etc.
804;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
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Roget 651:
imperfection;
imperfectness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
peccancy
etc.
(badness)
649†;
immaturity
etc.
674.
fault,
defect,
weak point;
screw loose;
flaw
etc.
(break)
70;
gap
etc.
198;
twist
etc.
243;
taint,
attainder;
bar sinister,
hole in one's coat;
blemish
etc.
848;
weakness
etc.
160;
half blood;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
drawback;
seamy side.
mediocrity;
no great shakes,
no great catch;
not much to boast of;
one-horse shay.
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Dutch: gebrekkigheid, imperfectie, onvolkomenheid, onvolmaaktheid
Polish: skazitelność
Moby thesaurus: absence, arrear, arrearage, arrears, bad habit, baseness, beggary, besetting sin, blemish, bug, catch, crack, damage, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, demerit, deprivation, destitution, drawback, drought, error, failing, failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, fault, faute, fewness, flaw, foible, frailty, hole, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inferiority, infirmity, insufficiency, kink, lack, little problem, littleness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, moral flaw, need, omission, peccadillo, pettiness, problem, rift, shabbiness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, slump, smallness, snag, something missing, starvation, subnormality, taint, triviality, underage, unskillfulness, vice, vulgarity, vulnerable place, want, wantage, weak link, weak point, weak side, weakness ... show more.
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