Despotic vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
despotic | imperfect |
Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
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.
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
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Alternative forms
* despotickAdjective
(en adjective)- This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
- The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.
Synonyms
* (acting or ruling as a despot) domineering, tyrannicalimperfect
English
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.