Contaminated vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
contaminated | imperfect | Related terms |
(contaminate)
Not perfect.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
(taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
(obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
* Jeremy Taylor
Something having a minor flaw
(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
Contaminated is a related term of imperfect.
As adjectives the difference between contaminated and imperfect
is that contaminated is adulterated; impure while imperfect is not perfect.As a verb contaminated
is (contaminate).As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.contaminated
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Verb
(head)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "contaminated" is often applied: food, meat, fish, milk, water, groundwater, land, soil, sediment, site, property, air, product, material.imperfect
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
- Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
- Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
- He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.