IMPERFECT


Meaning of IMPERFECT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

world

Fun-lovers live superficially, afraid to face suffering and to enter deeply into the ambiguities and hurts of an imperfect world .

In the imperfect world in which we live, however, there exists a whole range of different interest rates.

Social workers work in an imperfect world .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Imperfect goods are sold off cheaply.

Democracy, no matter how imperfect , is still the best method of government.

In general, people have a very imperfect knowledge of the law.

She has anxieties and fears, like anyone else in this imperfect world.

The conversation was limited by my imperfect Spanish.

You have to accept that most relationships are imperfect .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a mere imperfect mortal, I find myself working twice as hard to introduce those whom I like to the Lord.

For example, the modelling of the corporate sector, particularly allowing for imperfect competition, is likely to pose formidable problems.

In practice, the invisible foot is sometimes a very imperfect incentive structure.

In the imperfect world in which we live, however, there exists a whole range of different interest rates.

She had even been able to effect an imperfect superimposition of her reality upon his own.

Some readings seemed high, possibly because of imperfect masking of the plant boxes.

The copy is then imperfect and the proteins it will create may be entirely different.

They had too much work to do in too little time with imperfect information and limited resources.

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