Imperfect is an English word with synonyms like blemished or broken. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Imperfect in a sentence
Related words
Imperfect meaning
- Not perfect,
- Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
Synonyms of Imperfect
Using Imperfect
- The main meaning on this page is: Not perfect, | Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both. | Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- Useful related words include: blemished, broken, progressive, human.
- In the example corpus, imperfect often appears in combinations such as: an imperfect, the imperfect, imperfect and.
Context around Imperfect
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Imperfect
- In this selection, "imperfect" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perfect, produce, bottoms, system, indicative and cloning stand out and add context to how "imperfect" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include almost always imperfect and an already imperfect system beginning. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "imperfect" sits close to words such as aligns, appellate and bhutan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with imperfect
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fourth on the list was being comfortable being vulnerable and imperfect. (11 words)
It may be imperfect, she said, but it’s the best information available. (13 words)
Have the courage to be imperfect and allow all others to be imperfect as well. (15 words)
In addition to the demons of the id, we recognise that none of the institutions that we design around our values will ever work perfectly (hence imperfect socialisations, to begin with), so we create macro-institutions to deal with these exigencies. (41 words)
In other words, for all their imperfections in an immensely imperfect neighborhood, are the people in Jews’ sole ancestral homeland – home to half the world’s Jewish population – not entitled to equal solidarity from those committed to social justice? (39 words)
These different permutations were called "perfect/imperfect tempus" at the level of the breve–semibreve relationship, "perfect/imperfect prolation" at the level of the semibreve–minim, and existed in all possible combinations with each other. (35 words)
Are we seeing this year an imperfect system more clearly or seeing an already imperfect system beginning to fail? (19 words)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid's Greg Heffley is an imperfect protagonist, but does that mean he's a sociopath? (20 words)
In other words, for all their imperfections in an immensely imperfect neighborhood, are the people in Jews’ sole ancestral homeland – home to half the world’s Jewish population – not entitled to equal solidarity from those committed to social justice? (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Imperfect L2 learning The imperfect L2 ( second language ) learning hypothesis claims that pidgins are primarily the result of the imperfect L2 learning of the dominant lexifier language by the slaves.
Have the courage to be imperfect and allow all others to be imperfect as well.
Are we seeing this year an imperfect system more clearly or seeing an already imperfect system beginning to fail?
Imperfect cloning Even though it is impossible to make perfect copies of an unknown quantum state, it is possible to produce imperfect copies.
Imperfect indicative The imperfect indicative simply expresses an action in the past that was not completed.
It is therefore the case that imperfect markets are often better than imperfect governmental alternatives.
These different permutations were called "perfect/imperfect tempus" at the level of the breve–semibreve relationship, "perfect/imperfect prolation" at the level of the semibreve–minim, and existed in all possible combinations with each other.
The simple (one-word) forms are commonly referred to as the present, the simple past or preterite The preterite and imperfect are sometimes called, somewhat redundantly, the preterite past and imperfect past.
Again, I’ll include the caveat that these categories are imperfect — though I leaned on metrics like voting records, leadership roles as well as expert analysis to guide my reporting.
And we're kind of making a point in time call based on the imperfect information we have.
As a rule of thumb, Labunski says he never buys into “the first model of anything” because, much like that first pancake you cook, it is almost always imperfect.
Bold-colored bottoms, imperfect patterns and cinched blazers aren’t the only items trending on the runway this fashion season.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid's Greg Heffley is an imperfect protagonist, but does that mean he's a sociopath?
Few properties have endured a more beleaguered history of imperfect adaptations than video games, but the tides just might be turning with the pristine likes of now leading the pack.
For the rest of the 11 months, they are without any power and rely on the imperfect survival methods of humans.
Fourth on the list was being comfortable being vulnerable and imperfect.
In addition to the demons of the id, we recognise that none of the institutions that we design around our values will ever work perfectly (hence imperfect socialisations, to begin with), so we create macro-institutions to deal with these exigencies.
In other words, for all their imperfections in an immensely imperfect neighborhood, are the people in Jews’ sole ancestral homeland – home to half the world’s Jewish population – not entitled to equal solidarity from those committed to social justice?
It is obvious though, the democratic practice is the best “imperfect” political system amongst all that human society has ever developed for any healthy society.
It may be imperfect, she said, but it’s the best information available.
Common combinations with imperfect
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an imperfect 42×
- the imperfect 16×
- imperfect and 15×
- and imperfect 14×
- is imperfect 9×
- of imperfect 8×
- imperfect but 8×
- imperfect as 6×
- imperfect world 6×
- be imperfect 5×