Phrase Hound found 124 phrases and 40 compound words that contain perfect. The most common are listed below. Open perfect in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 124
- present perfectA perfect tense that expresses action in the past (usually completed) with consequences in the present time.
- perfect numberA number that is the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
- Perfect Match
- future perfectA tense that expresses action completed at some time in the future; in English it is formed by use of will have (or shall have) and a past participle.
- Perfect Fit
- perfect timeA system of timing in mensural notation in which a breve is equal to three semibreves.
- past perfectA tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense.
- Perfect Solution
- Perfect Way
- practice makes perfectIf one practices an activity enough, one will eventually master it.
- perfect fieldA field K such that every irreducible polynomial over K has distinct roots.
- picture-perfectPerfect in appearance as with the subjects in paintings or photographs, without the common imperfections of real life.
- perfect powerA positive integer that is an exact integer power of another positive integer.
- Perfect Sense
- word-perfectCorrect in every word.
- perfect crimeA crime that is undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or otherwise unsolved.
- Perfect Balance
- Perfect World
- Perfect Combination
- More Perfect
- perfect fifthAn interval equal to that of between the second and third harmonics of the harmonic series. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it spans seven semitones or five degrees of the diatonic scale.
- Perfect Holiday
- perfect stormA powerful hurricane or other major weather disturbance, especially as produced by a combination of meteorological conditions.
- Perfect Day
- perfect pitchThe ability to identify a note by name on hearing it, or to re-create a specified note from memory, without the benefit of an externally provided reference pitch.
Compound words 40
- perfectionThe quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence.
- imperfectNot perfect.
- purrfectPerfect, in contexts relating to cats.
- perfectnessThe quality of being perfect; perfection.
- perfectoidOf a field: being a complete topological field whose topology is induced by a nondiscrete valuation of rank 1.
- omniperfectTruly perfect in every way.
- perfectamundoperfect
- perfectabilityThe state or quality of being able to be perfected.
- semiperfectApproaching perfection; not entirely perfect.
- perfectestsuperlative form of perfect: most perfect