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Imperfect vs Future - What's the difference?

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In grammar terms the difference between imperfect and future

is that imperfect is a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous while future is verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.

As adjectives the difference between imperfect and future

is that imperfect is not perfect while future is having to do with or occurring in the future.

As nouns the difference between imperfect and future

is that imperfect is something having a minor flaw while future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.

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.

    Related terms

    * imperfection

    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.

    • future

    English

    (wikipedia future)

    Noun

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  • Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  • (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.

    • Usage notes

    * (finance) The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it. * (finance) A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in future is called forward or forward contract.

    Coordinate terms

    * (finance) forward

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

    • Derived terms

    * futurism * futurist * futuristic * retro future 1000 English basic words ----