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1. Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
   "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
    
2. Without qualification; used informally as an (often pejorative) intensifier
   "a perfect idiot";
   - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated, rigorous
    
3. Precisely accurate or exact
   "perfect timing"
    
4. (biology) sexually mature and fully differentiated
    
5. (botany) having both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts

1. Make perfect or complete
   "perfect your French in Paris!";
   - hone

1. A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
   - perfective, perfective tense, perfect tense

Derived forms: perfected, perfecting, perfects

See also: clean, clear, cold, complete, consummate, down, down pat, errorless, exact, faultless, flawless, flawlessness, ideal, idealised [Brit], idealized, idyllic, immaculate, impeccable, incorrupted, mastered, mint, ne plus ultra, perfectible, perfection, pluperfect, unblemished, unbroken, uncorrupted, undefiled, unflawed, unmarred, unmitigated, unmutilated, utopian

Type of: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, mend, tense

Antonym: imperfect

Encyclopedia: Perfect, William