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imperfected

imperfected is the simple past and past participle of imperfect.

Meaning of imperfect

Verb

imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)

  1. (transitive) to make imperfect
    • I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910

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Adjective

imperfected (not comparable)

  1. Not perfected.
    Synonyms:
    unperfected

Synonyms of imperfected

Questions about imperfected

What does imperfected mean?
Imperfected means not perfected.
What is imperfected the simple past and past participle of?
Imperfected is the simple past and past participle of imperfect.
What part of speech is imperfected?
Imperfected is an adjective.

Words near imperfected in the dictionary

  1. imperfect tense
  2. imperfect tenses
  3. imperfect time
  4. imperfectability
  5. imperfectable
  6. imperfected
  7. imperfecter
  8. imperfectest
  9. imperfectibility
  10. imperfectible
  11. imperfectibly

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