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Despotic vs Imperfect - What's the difference?

despotic | imperfect |

As adjectives the difference between despotic and imperfect

is that despotic is of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant while imperfect is not perfect.

As a noun imperfect is

something having a minor flaw.

despotic

English

Alternative forms

* despotick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
  • This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
  • Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
  • The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.

    Synonyms

    * (acting or ruling as a despot) domineering, tyrannical

    imperfect

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not perfect.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
  • * Milton
  • Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
  • (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
  • He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.

    Synonyms

    * (not perfect) defective, fallible, faultful

    Antonyms

    * (not perfect) perfect, infallible, faultless * (unisexual) perfect

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something having a minor flaw
  • (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.