Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To leave unfinished.
  • Not perfect
  • Deficient; imperfect; faulty; lacking in something.

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

  • transitive verb obsolete To mar or destroy the perfection of.
  • adjective obsolete Imperfect.

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  • adjective imperfect

Etymologies

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un- +‎ perfect.

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Examples

  • I love the fact that they are unperfect, they had flaws but work against the odds to make the right choices.

    Guest Author: Erin Quinn Nalini Singh 2010

  • Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;

    No Fat Clips!!! : EMET 2009

  • They're calling it the Unsuggester, and it's basically as it sounds: You enter in the title of a book, it scours the LT database and using a complex algorithm and some sort of black magic it then suggests some unperfect matches, what could be seen as the anti-recommendation for what you're reading.

    December 2006 2006

  • They're calling it the Unsuggester, and it's basically as it sounds: You enter in the title of a book, it scours the LT database and using a complex algorithm and some sort of black magic it then suggests some unperfect matches, what could be seen as the anti-recommendation for what you're reading.

    Unsuggesting 2006

  • I find in its unperfect state it becomes more real and edible.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Fer 2007

  • Single women are daydreaming, so might well end their romantic fantasy with themselves walking down an aisle, but women in relationships have the reality of their unperfect because human partner staring them in the face, and actually some of them idealise being single.

    Consumed by Marriage 2005

  • I find in its unperfect state it becomes more real and edible.

    Quiche Pots Fer 2007

  • Of course, after I was having sex, I started buying into the whole “must be perfect”thing, thanks to an abusive boyfriend or two, and became obsessively modest because I was ashamed of my unperfect body.

    Male Privilege Checklist: The Slut Phenomenon 2006

  • Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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