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Imperfect vs Misbegotten - What's the difference?

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Imperfect is a related term of misbegotten.


As adjectives the difference between imperfect and misbegotten

is that imperfect is not perfect while misbegotten is (of a person).

As nouns the difference between imperfect and misbegotten

is that imperfect is something having a minor flaw while misbegotten is .

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.

    • misbegotten

    English

    Noun

  • .
  • circumstances.
  • * 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 161:
    • By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten ”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person) .
  • (by extension, figuratively) .
  • * 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “ Cabin Boy” in :
    • Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.

    • See also

    * * *

    References

    * (OED)'' (3rd ed., June 2002), “ misbegotten, ''n. ''and'' adj. ” English adjectives ending in -en