Past tense of perfect
regular verb
The past tense of perfect is perfected. The past participle is also perfected.
Forms of perfect
| Base form (V1) | perfect /ˈpɜː.fɪkt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | perfected |
| Past participle (V3) | perfected |
| Present participle | perfecting |
| Third person singular | perfects |
Perfected in a sentence
- One would have expected something more perfected from a don—and a lecturer at McGill at that.1964 September, “New Books: A History of Russian Railways. By J. N. Westwood. Allen & Unwin. 45s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222. From the entry at that
- Undersea boats spell a nameless, historical terror because no effective counterarm has been perfected.1917, Flying - Volume 5, page 136. From the entry counterarm
- She sounded like someone who'd perfected the language through booklearning but hadn't yet learned the art of conversing with contractions.2020, Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke, London: Titan Books, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry booklearning
- Reuniting with a murderers’ row of similarly wizened crime-movie veterans, Scorsese hasn’t just returned to reclaim the genre he nearly perfected.2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club…. From the entry murderers' row
- Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 81. From the entry shuffle off this mortal coil
Meaning of perfect
- adjective Fitting its definition precisely.
- adjective Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
- adjective Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
Questions about the past tense of perfect
- What is the past tense of perfect?
- The past tense of perfect is perfected.
- What is the past participle of perfect?
- The past participle of perfect is perfected.
- Is perfect a regular or irregular verb?
- Perfect is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: perfect (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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