Word Meanings - UNPERFECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mar or destroy the perfection of. Sir P. Sidney.

Related words: (words related to UNPERFECT)

• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• PERFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
• PERFECTION
  1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an
• PERFECTIONMENT
  The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor.
• PERFECTIONATE
  To perfect. Dryden.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• PERFECTIONISM
  The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• PERFECTIONIST
  One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. South.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• UNPERFECTION
  Want of perfection; imperfection. Wyclif.
• UNDESTROYABLE
  Indestructible.
• IMPERFECTION
  The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak. Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness;
• COMMERCE DESTROYER
  A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.