Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of being made perfect. Imp, Dict., Supp.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Incapable of being made perfect.

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  • adjective Incapable of being made perfect.

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  • adjective capable of being made imperfect

Etymologies

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im- +‎ perfectible

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Examples

  • The final consumer good is beauty in our surroundings, and beauty is both individual and imperfectible.

    A Kingdom for a Frame, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • If human nature is in these ways imperfectible by mere instruction and teaching, why do you believe it to be perfectible in the case of rape?

    Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005

  • Its opening sentence, "Life is difficult", introduced a tome which argued, uncontentiously and sensibly, that human experience was trying and imperfectible, and that only self-discipline, delaying gratification, acceptance that one's actions have consequences, and a determined attempt at spiritual growth could make sense of it.

    BatesLine: October 2005 Archives 2005

  • Its opening sentence, "Life is difficult", introduced a tome which argued, uncontentiously and sensibly, that human experience was trying and imperfectible, and that only self-discipline, delaying gratification, acceptance that one's actions have consequences, and a determined attempt at spiritual growth could make sense of it.

    De mortuis nil nisi bonum - BatesLine 2005

  • Man is an imperfectible animal, and because he is, we can't eliminate hate-we can't eliminate brutality-we can't eliminate unreason.

    Canadian and American Relations 1963

  • Against this, her vocals stood even more intensely as the pure residue, the hauntology in the machine, the tragedy of the soul imperfectible by science.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed Daniel B. Yates 2010

  • Human nature being the imperfectible thing it is, he thought, the French would more than likely "run to anarchy."

    City Journal 2009

  • Augustinianism), which, by definition, asserted that humans were fallen, imperfect, and imperfectible by their own devices.

    Dad29 2008

  • Augustinianism), which, by definition, asserted that humans were fallen, imperfect, and imperfectible by their own devices.

    Dad29 2008

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