- relating to or characterized by defects or weaknesses: With my imperfect vision I couldn’t make out the street name.
- not perfect; lacking completeness: Human knowledge on all subjects is imperfect.
- designating a verb aspect, tense, or other verb category used to express an action or state still in process at some point of reference in time, especially in the past.
- being without legal effect or support; unenforceable.
- (of a flower) diclinous.
- of or relating to the interval of a major or minor third or sixth.
- in some languages, a verb aspect, tense, or other verb category used to express an action or state still in process at some point of reference in time, especially in the past.
- an instance or form of a specific verb in such an aspect, tense, or construction, such as Latin portābam “I was carrying.”
- exhibiting or characterized by faults, mistakes, etc; defective
- not complete or finished; deficient
- botany
- (of flowers) lacking functional stamens or pistils
- (of fungi) not undergoing sexual reproduction
- denoting a tense of verbs used most commonly in describing continuous or repeated past actions or events, as for example was walking as opposed to walked
- (of a trust, an obligation, etc) lacking some necessary formality to make effective or binding; incomplete; legally unenforceable
- music
- (of a cadence) proceeding to the dominant from the tonic, subdominant, or any chord other than the dominant
- of or relating to all intervals other than the fourth, fifth, and octave
- grammar
- the imperfect tense
- a verb in this tense
