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say it: pur-FEKT
perfect is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish". It carries 5 recorded senses.
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
“an arrant fool”
“a complete coward”
“a consummate fool”
“a double-dyed villain”
“gross negligence”
“a perfect idiot”
“pure folly”
“what a sodding mess”
“stark staring mad”
“a thorough nuisance”
“a thoroughgoing villain”
“utter nonsense”
“the unadulterated truth”
a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for perfect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.