perfect
per-(through, completely) + facere(do)
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complete: 「完全な」という意の最も一般的な語. 必要な物が一式揃っていること. また, 可能な範囲で最も程度が大きいこと. 肯定的な意味でも用いるが, 否定的な語を強調する際に好まれる
full: 量や程度が100パーセントの状態にあること. また, 詳細に富み, 数･量で完璧なこと
perfect: 間違いや欠陥がなく, 同種の中で最も良い状態であること, または後に続く名詞の本来あるべき性質･状態を完璧に満たしていることをいう
adjective | ˈpərfikt |
1. having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be:
e.g. life certainly isn't perfect at the moment
e.g. a perfect summer's day.
free from any flaw or defect in condition or quality; faultless:
e.g. the equipment was in perfect condition.
precisely accurate; exact: a perfect circle.
highly suitable for someone or something; exactly right:
e.g. with a little help you can create a room that is perfect for you
e.g. the perfect present for golfers everywhere.
Printing denoting a way of binding books in which pages are glued to the spine rather than sewn together.
dated thoroughly trained in or conversant with: she was perfect in French.
2. attributive absolute; complete (used for emphasis): a perfect stranger | all that Joseph said made perfect sense to me.
3. Mathematics (of a number) equal to the sum of its positive divisors, e.g. the number 6, whose divisors (1, 2, 3) also add up to 6.
4. Grammar (of a tense) denoting a completed action or a state or habitual action that began in the past. The perfect tense is formed in English with have or has and the past participle, as in they have eaten and they have been eating (since dawn) (present perfect), they had eaten (past perfect), and they will have eaten (future perfect).
5. Botany (of a flower) having both stamens and carpels present and functional.
Botany denoting the stage or state of a fungus in which the sexually produced spores are formed.
Entomology (of an insect) fully adult and (typically) winged.
verb | pərˈfekt | with object
make (something) completely free from faults or defects, or as close to such a condition as possible:
e.g. he's busy perfecting his bowling technique.
archaic bring to completion; finish.
complete (a printed sheet of paper) by printing the second side.
Law satisfy the necessary conditions or requirements for the transfer of (a gift, title, etc.):
e.g. equity will not perfect an imperfect gift.
noun | ˈpərfikt | (the perfect) Grammar
the perfect tense.
DERIVATIVES
perfecter | pərˈfektər | noun
perfectibility | pərˌfektəˈbilədē | noun
perfectible | pərˈfektəb(ə)l | adjective
perfectness | ˈpərfək(t)nəs | noun
USAGE
In the literal sense, perfect and unique are absolute words and should not be modified, as they often are in such phrases as most perfect, quite unique, etc. See also usage at unique.
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French perfet, from Latin perfectus ‘completed’, from the verb perficere, from per- ‘through, completely’ + facere ‘do’.