Imperfect vs Heinous - What's the difference?
imperfect | heinous | Related terms |
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.
Totally reprehensible.
Imperfect is a related term of heinous.
As adjectives the difference between imperfect and heinous
is that imperfect is not perfect while heinous is totally reprehensible.As a noun imperfect
is something having a minor flaw.imperfect
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.
Synonyms
* (not perfect) defective, fallible, faultfulAntonyms
* (not perfect) perfect, infallible, faultless * (unisexual) perfectNoun
(en noun)heinous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.
- The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.
- The government denounced the attack as the most heinous of the last decade.
- Political Leaders from around the world have condemned these heinous acts.
- In our public services sorry seems to be the most heinous word.