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Imperfect vs Injunctive - What's the difference?

imperfect | injunctive |

As adjectives the difference between imperfect and injunctive

is that imperfect is not perfect while injunctive is pertaining to the injunctive mood.

As nouns the difference between imperfect and injunctive

is that imperfect is something having a minor flaw while injunctive is (linguistics|uncountable) a verbal mood in sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect.

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.
  • injunctive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics, uncountable) A verbal mood in Sanskrit characterized by secondary endings but no augment, and usually looked like an augmentless aorist or imperfect.
  • (linguistics, countable) A verbal lexeme in injunctive mood.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to the injunctive mood.
  • Pertaining to or being an injunction.