Word: imperfect
Category: imperfect
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Related words: imperfect
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Synonyms: imperfect
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: imperfect
The meaning and "use of": imperfect
- not perfect; faulty or incomplete. - an imperfect grasp of English
- (of a tense) denoting a past action in progress but not completed at the time in question. - Gee, was that an imperfect tense or an indicative?
- (of a cadence) ending on the dominant chord. - But an imperfect cadence leaves the listener expecting resolution, which duly comes.
- (of a gift, title, etc.) transferred without all the necessary conditions or requirements being met. - The claimant's evidence was that the purported but imperfect gift had been made a long time previously and not (as the letter said) after receipt of Mr Blake's letter.
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