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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of the poorest quality.

Hateful.

* 1779 , Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27

But is an enemy so execrable , that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

* {{quote-book

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