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Synonyms & Antonyms for imperfect
Synonyms: Adjective
amiss, bad, defective, faulty, flawed
Antonyms: Adjective
faultless, flawless, impeccable, perfect
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Examples of imperfect in a Sentence
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It's an imperfect solution to a difficult problem. He had an imperfect understanding of the task. In “He was singing when I came in,” “was singing” is in the imperfect tense.
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The firepower in Los Angeles outpaces that of the Jazz (although the Lakers’ roster remains imperfect) and the Rockets are a strong bet to hold home court advantage again after winning 65 games in 2017-18. — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, "Finding the Top Win Total Locks of the 2019-20 Season," 9 Aug. 2019 The tallies are imperfect, given that the FEC reports list location information only for those itemized contributions of $200 or more. — Tom Benning, Dallas News, "Are top Democratic presidential hopefuls cannibalizing O’Rourke and Castro’s Texas fundraising?," 26 July 2019 Because art is just one part of our conversation, often imperfect, occasionally amazing, with reality. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: How John Proctor and #MeToo helped cure my ‘work in progress’ theater phobia," 15 Aug. 2019 Legendary sitcom producer Norman Lear created worlds and characters that looked like the messy, imperfect ones their audiences knew. — Joanna Scutts, Curbed, "The shows we’ve lived by," 14 Aug. 2019 The police might then run the video through facial recognition software, which is imperfect and might incorrectly identify innocent people as potential suspects. — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, "Amazon is developing high-tech surveillance tools for an eager customer: America's police," 8 Aug. 2019 The Center for Public Integrity database allows for a rough approximation, thanks to their efforts to identify individual donors by their names and zip codes That effort is still imperfect. — Tom Benning, Dallas News, "Here's how much money Democratic presidential hopefuls have raised so far in Texas to beat Trump," 8 Aug. 2019 Obamacare has reduced the number of uninsured Americans by twenty million and, while the system is imperfect, premiums are more manageable than is often reported. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, "The Battle for Health Care," 14 July 2019 But while the Facebook-as-government theory captures something about the company’s power—mainly because government is our most familiar model for concentrated power—the analogy is hugely imperfect. — Alexis Papazoglou, The New Republic, "Facebook Is a New Form of Power," 22 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Performances had been stuttering, results imperfect: At Santiago Bernabéu, the 85,000-seat stadium where Real Madrid plays its matches, one loss and three draws in 11 league games does not cut it. — Rory Smith, New York Times, "Real Madrid Wins Easily in Zidane’s Debut as Coach JAN. 9, 2016," 2 Dec. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'imperfect.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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