imperfectとは

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɝːfɪkt/, /ɪmˈpɝːfɛkt/

形容詞

imperfect (comparative more imperfect, superlative most imperfect)

1. not perfect

   Synonyms: defective, fallible, faultful

   Antonyms: faultless, infallible, perfect

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

2. (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

   Antonym: perfect

3. (taxonomy) known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
4. (obsolete) lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor

     He […] stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.

5. (grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

関連する語

• imperfection

名詞

imperfect (複数形 imperfects)

1. something having a minor flaw
2. (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

   Synonym: preterimperfect

派生語

• imperfective

動詞

imperfect (三人称単数 現在形 imperfects, 現在分詞 imperfecting, 過去形および過去分詞形 imperfected)

1. (transitive) to make imperfect
   • 1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,^[1]

     I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 43,^[2]

     Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.

   • 1962, Alec Harman and Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West, Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126,^[3]

     […] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […]