present perfect

1. 1.

   a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present

   “`I have finished' is an example of the present perfect”

   Synonymspresent perfect tense

   Broaderperfective

Questions about present perfect

What does present perfect mean?

present perfect means "a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present".

What is another word for present perfect?

Close synonyms include present perfect tense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is present perfect a common word?

present perfect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.