'Imperfection' definitions:
Definition of 'imperfection'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state or an instance of being imperfect [syn: imperfection, imperfectness] [ant: flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection]
Definition of 'Imperfection'
From: GCIDE
- Imperfection \Im`per*fec"tion\, n. [L. imperfectio: cf. F. imperfection. See Imperfect, a.] The quality or condition of being imperfect; lack of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. [1913 Webster]
- Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. --Shak.
- Syn: Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness; frailty; foible; blemish; vice. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'imperfection'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- arrear,
- arrearage,
- arrears,
- bad habit,
- baseness,
- beggary,
- besetting sin,
- blemish,
- bug,
- catch,
- crack,
- damage,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defection,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- delinquency,
- demerit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- drawback,
- drought,
- error,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallibility,
- falling short,
- famine,
- fault,
- faute,
- fewness,
- flaw,
- foible,
- frailty,
- hole,
- impoverishment,
- inadequacy,
- incompetence,
- incompleteness,
- inferiority,
- infirmity,
- insufficiency,
- kink,
- lack,
- little problem,
- littleness,
- maladroitness,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- moral flaw,
- need,
- omission,
- peccadillo,
- pettiness,
- problem,
- rift,
- shabbiness,
- short measure,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sin,
- slump,
- smallness,
- snag,
- something missing,
- starvation,
- subnormality,
- taint,
- triviality,
- underage,
- unskillfulness,
- vice,
- vulgarity,
- vulnerable place,
- want,
- wantage,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weak side,
- weakness